Blog
Welcome to our blog – The Bottom Line, where you’ll find up-to-date commentary and analysis on the most important news in the fiscal world. Below is a list of our blog posts.
Budget Negotiations: Will Showmanship or Statesmanship Prevail?
The term "shutdown" is being tossed around in Washington as much as "Cinderella" has been on ESPN as of late. With the current continuing resolution...
Economists Agree on Urgency of Deficit-Reduction Plan
Today, The National Journal debuted its Economic Insiders Poll, a "periodic poll of veteran experts on the policy and political dynamics of key issues...
Concord Coalition Pulls Out the Key Dates from GAO's Long-Term Outlook
Today, our friends over at the Concord Coalition wrote an interesting blog in which they pulled out the key fiscal dates from GAO's re-issued long...
‘Line’ Items: Blossoms Edition
In Bloom – Spring is officially here, though the weather would have one think otherwise. Frigid temperatures and even a little snow in the Washington...
What the Future Could Hold
In Sunday's New York Times, Gregory Mankiw, a Harvard economics professor and former chair of the Council of Economic Advisors (CEA) under President...
It's Time to Reform Social Security
There have been a number of pieces lately that have offered perspectives on how to view the recent debate surrounding the Social Security program. Is...
Spotlight on the States: Minnesota
In this installment of our Spotlight on the States blog series, focused on Minnesota, we take a slightly different look at the state's fiscal...
"Meet the Generations": Generation X
Meet Kate, a fictitious 41 year old Generation X member. How will our leaders’ fiscal choices affect her life? In our fifth and final installment of...
MARKETWATCH: March 21-24, 2011
Safe haven worries that had dominated trading last week have eased so far this week – and investor appetite for greater risk rose a little. The yield...
"Meet the Generations": Baby Boomers
Meet John, a 56-year-old fictional Baby Boomer "profiled" in the fourth installment of our "Meet the Generations" blog series, inspired by our latest...
So Does Social Security Add to the Deficit?
In light of the recent debates over Social Security, CRFB's latest paper attempts to clarify how the program relates to the federal budget and budget...
Ten Former CEA Chairs Call for "Intense Negotiations" on Long-Term Deficits
A bipartisan group of ten former chairs of the President's Council of Economic Advisors (CEA) published an op-ed in Politico today stating that the...