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Larry Summers, the Administration's top economist (and former CRFB board member), has an op-ed in the Financial Times today, looking at why the...

Opens and Tours – Americans did not fare well in sporting events across the pond this weekend; leaving us Yanks to rely on past memories of success at...

CRFB board member Eugene Steuerle joined the Announcement Effect Club in a post on the Urban Institute's website. In the post, he talked about the...

The (brief) stock market rally had dominated trading in the earlier part of the week. However, investor interest in U.S. government bonds picked up...

Despite OMB's best efforts to trim waste from the government, The Onion believes it is inevitable that billions and billions of dollars will be wasted...

Congressman Mike Quigley (D-IL) today introduced important legislation to create a more transparent budget regime towards putting the country on a...

According to the Council of Economic Advisors’ (CEA) quarterly report on the continuing effects of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA)...

Today, former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said in an interview that all of the 2001 Bush tax cuts, which he had previously supported...

A few days after Senate Republicans jumped on board the Sessions-McCaskill bandwagon, 58 House Democrats called for greater restraint of spending and...

What to do about the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts that are set to expire at the end of the year has been a critical question that Congress has largely...

Today, CRFB released its report on the long-term effects of the recent health care reform package (be sure to check it out!), based on information...

Republicans on the Senate Appropriations Committee backed the discretionary spending caps proposed by Jeff Sessions and Claire McCaskill yesterday...