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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.
CBO Reduces Projected Cost of TARP
Back in December, we had surmised that due to recent developments with Citigroup, GM, and AIG, CBO's cost estimate of TARP would come down further...
Galston Calls on President Obama to Lead on Deficit
Today, Bill Galston of Brookings wrote a public letter in The New Republic arguing that, while there are many pressing national issues, deficit...
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...