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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.
CMS Analyzes House Health Care Bill
On Friday, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released a report estimating the effects of the House health care reform bill. Looking...
Weekend Editorial Roundup
Here are the highlights from this weekend’s editorials on fiscal and budget policy: The New York Times applauds the House and Senate Finance bills for...
Three More FDIC Bank Closings
On Friday evening, the FDIC reported that it has taken over an additional three banks ( Pacific Coast National Bank, Orion Bank, Century Bank) for a...
Freezing Discretionary Spending...
UPDATE: Stan Collender thinks we might be making ice mountains out of snow hills. According to a number of news reports, President Obama has begun...
FDIC to Collect Three Years of Premiums in Advance
The FDIC has just adopted a rule to require banks to pay at the end of 2009 the amount they would owe the FDIC for insurance premiums over the next...
Administration Claims Extra TARP Cash Is Deficit Reduction
This morning, a Wall Street Journal article reported that the White House intends to use some of the remaining TARP cash for deficit reduction, while...
Monthly Treasury Statement Shows $1.417 trillion Final Deficit Number for FY 2009
The Monthly Treasury Statement is out, and states that Fiscal Year 2010 is off to a perilous start. The deficit for the month of October is ringing in...
High Unemployment Numbers Displayed in Interactive Graphics
Last Friday, we blogged on new information from the Bureau of Labor Statistics reporting the astonishingly high monthly unemployment rate for October...
Gaps Return to State Budgets
In a recent report from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP), mid-year budget shortfalls, totaling $16 billion or 4 percent of these...
Stop Us Before We Spend Again
President of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, Maya MacGuineas, testified before the Senate Budget Committee on proposals to form a...
Treasury Ends Capital Assistance Program
Yesterday, the Treasury announced that the Capital Assistance Program (CAP), one of TARP’s several programs, will close, having made no investments...
CRFB on Capitol Hill
Maya MacGuineas, President of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, will testify today before the Senate Budget Committee on proposals to...