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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.
CNN Money Exclusive: Dear Speaker Boehner
CRFB President Maya MacGuineas has another commentary on CNN Money, urging policymakers to get specific on ideas to solve America's debt crisis. You...
Three Andrews in Support of Raising the Early Retirement Age
Andrew Biggs has an interesting piece out at the American Enterprise Institute that has been generating some attention (see Ezra Klein’s comments here...
EU Votes on Promising Sustainability Plan
Last week, the heads of the EU governments agreed on groundbreaking steps to prevent Greece-style fiscal meltdowns from ever happening again and to...
Agreeing with Rubin
Bob Rubin, former Clinton Treasury Secretary, had an opinion piece in the Financial Times on Monday that made a lot of points we certainly agree with...
Dallas Morning News Readers Try the Stabilize the Debt Simulator
Our Stabilize the Debt budget simulator, which allows users to try their hand at deficit reduction, has become an important tool for understanding the...
Rejecting Obstructive Pledges and Considering Proposals from the Fiscal Commission
The Bottom Line today concludes its blog series highlighting our Ten Questions to Ask the Candidates on fiscal responsibility. 9. Rejecting Pledges...
‘Line’ Items: Post-Halloween and Pre-Election Edition
Tricks and Treats Not Done Yet – Halloween was celebrated last night and Election Day is tomorrow. Which day is scarier likely depends on your...
Spending Challenge: Heritage Foundation's $343 Billion Proposal
The Heritage Foundation recently came out with a detailed paper with over $300 billion in spending cuts that can be put in place in FY 2012. Their...
Health Care and Taxes
The Bottom Line presents the next installment in our series highlighting our Ten Questions to Ask the Candidates leading up to Election Day. 7...
Social Security and National Security
The Bottom Line continues its blog series highlighting our Ten Questions to Ask the Candidates ahead of the mid-term elections. 5. Strengthening...
NTU, US PIRG and Heritage Get Specific
Yesterday was a big day for getting specific as the National Taxpayers Union and the United States Public Interest Research Group, as well as the...
Pay As You Go and the Tax Cuts
Continuing in our discussion of (what we believe to be the most important!) Ten Questions to Ask the Candidates leading up to this coming Tuesday's...