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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...

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...

According to CBO Director Doug Elmendorf: CBO is celebrating its 35th birthday! The agency was created by the Congressional Budget and Impoundment...

Today, Senate Majority leader Harry Reid introduced a second jobs bill, following the first $16 billion jobs bill (-$1.1 billion 11-year deficit...

An editorial yesterday in the Wall Street Journal called on the Administration to support the reform of the two housing financing enterprises...

Ever since Scott Brown's victory in Massachusetts, there has been a lot of talk about Democrats using budget reconciliation to pass a comprehensive...

A little less than a week after the President signed an Executive Order establishing a National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, the...

Rescuing us from the disaster that is the U.S. tax code while reducing the federal debt will require nothing short of a superhuman feat; Senators Ron...

The United States is not the first nation to face tough fiscal challenges. Other countries have faced similar fiscal challenges – and gotten out of...

Earlier today, Senators Judd Gregg (R-NH), and Ron Wyden (D-OR) released what they call A Bipartisan Plan for Tax Fairness. Read the press release...

Yesterday, the White House released its version of a health care reform bill to restart the debate on how to reform the country's health care system.

In the table below, CRFB has expanded on a table put together by Think Progress' Wonk Room, comparing select components of the President's proposal to...