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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.
Does the Health Care Bill Cost More Than We Thought?
Last week the Office of the Medicare Chief Actuary came out with their " Estimated Effects of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act," as...
Market Watch Update: April 26-30
As of mid-day Friday, April 30, the government bond market was on track to have a good week, with prices up (and therefore yields down, because they...
'It May Be a Predictable Crisis But It's Not a Necessary One'
Yesterday the Peterson Foundation hosted the Fiscal Summit: America's Crisis and a Way Forward, convening an all-star line-up of fiscal, economic, and...
Ryan Joins Announcement Effect Club, and Rubin Comes So Close
At yesterday's Peter G. Peterson Foundation Fiscal Summit, the Announcement Effect Club saw its membership bump up, yet again. During the second panel...
Blue Dog Demands May Hinder House Budget Resolution
The Blue Dog coalition is pushing for further spending cuts beyond what is in the President’s and Senate’s budget proposals.
Improper Payments Are a Start--But Cuts Must Go Deeper
In an OMBlog today, OMB director Peter Orszag applauded the House's passage of the Improper Payments Elimination and Recovery Act. Improper payments...
Paying for AMT Patches Can Take Many Forms
Last week the Chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, Kent Conrad (D-ND), released his Democratic budget plan (see our analysis of the Chairman’s...
'The Most Predictable Economic Crisis We've Ever Had'
Concluding earlier this afternoon, the inaugural meeting of the President's National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform laid the...
Debt Downgrade for Greece (and Portugal)
In previous blogs, we have discussed how the three credit rating agencies have hinted that the United States needs to get its debt under control (see...
Webcast: Debt Commission Kicks Off First Meeting
The President's National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform kicks off today with its first meeting to discuss the country's long-term...
‘Line’ Items: Draft Edition
Budget Resolution Drafted – The NFL isn’t the only entity that made key decisions for the future last week. On Thursday the Senate Budget Committee...
Obama Signs Up for the Spending Challenge
Last week, the President said “my first priority is to figure out how can we reduce wasteful spending so that, you know, we have a baseline of the...