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The new fiscal year has begun without a budget blueprint or any spending guidance enacted; the fiscal year 2010 deficit has been pegged at around $1.3...

Continuing with our Let’s Get Specific series, which lays out specific plans and policies to help reduce our national debt, today we have released our...

For most, the world of inflation statistics can be mind-numbing. Economists have developed a variety of indices. And there are three different ones...

Yesterday, 57 members of Congress sent a letter to the President’s Fiscal Commission advising the commission to put the defense budget under the...

They Did It! Kudos to the Esquire Budget Commission for releasing a budget plan this morning! Former Senators Gary Hart, Bill Bradley, Bob Packwood...

All of us here at CRFB would like to congratulate Peter Diamond, an MIT economist, on winning the Nobel Prize for Economics this year. Diamond, along...

CRFB President Maya MacGuineas offers some options for handling the expiring tax cuts.

We spend much of our time discussing and pointing out the precarious state of our federal budget. But the federal budget isn't the only area of public...

Our friend across the pond, the United Kingdom, is dealing with its own fiscal challenges. Currently, their debt-GDP ratio stands at over 71 percent...

Day of “Discovery” – Today we celebrate the man who quasi-discovered the Americas with a quasi-holiday that not everyone gets off (including the Line)...

The Center for American Progress recently released " A Thousand Cuts," which detailed what spending cuts could be adopted to achieve primary budget...

CBO, in its most recent Monthly Budget Review, estimated that the FY 2010 budget deficit (the fiscal year that ended at the end of September) was just...