Blog
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.
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“Painful, Unglamorous, and Indispensible Work of Fiscal Discipline”
Those were some of the words uttered by House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) today at the Brookings Institution as the latest political leader to...
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The Ever-Growing Announcement Effect Club
EPI's Lawrence Mishel joined the Announcement Effect Club with an article co-written with David Walker (already a member) in Politico last week. In...
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Weekend Editorial Roundup
Here are the highlights from this weekend’s editorials on fiscal and budget policy: The New York Times chided Jim Bunning for holding up a bill that...
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Two More FDIC Bank Closings
On Friday evening, the FDIC reported that it has taken over an additional two banks ( Rainier Pacific Bank, Carson River Community Bank) for a cost to...
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So What Does "Current Policy" Look Like?
Here at CRFB, we love constructing baselines. Whenever CBO constructs its own budget baseline, in fact, we rush to adjust it. CBO's projections, as...
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CBO/JCT Reports Roundup
A number of very interesting and relevant government reports came out the week of February 22, 2010.
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Bunning is Right on Unemployment: “We Should Pay For It”
Last night, Senator Jim Bunning blocked an effort to pass a one-month “extenders” bill by unanimous consent. The bill includes temporary extensions of...
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Obama Appoints Four More to the Deficit Commission
President Obama has named his remaining appointees to the Commission, including David Cote (CEO for Honeywell International), Alice Rivlin (former CBO...
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IMF Paper Outlines Fiscal and Monetary Exit Strategies
The IMF just recently released a new report, Exiting from Crisis Intervention Policies, arguing that as the crisis winds down, it is more important...
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Two Economists Join the Announcement Effect Club
In a blog post today on Voxeu.org, European economists Tim Besley and Andrew Scott joined the Announcement Effect Club, stating that a switch to tight...
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President's Health Care Summit
The President's effort to forge a bipartisan solution to health care reform at today's summit has just started and is televised on C-Span (click here...
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Happy 35th Birthday CBO!!!
According to CBO Director Doug Elmendorf: CBO is celebrating its 35th birthday! The agency was created by the Congressional Budget and Impoundment...