Budget Projections
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It Depends on What you Mean by 'Equal'
A small controversy has been brewing in the blogosphere over the relative value of the higher-income 2001/2003 tax cuts and the Social Security...
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CRFB Releases Its Realistic Baselines
Today, CRFB released a new policy paper showing a more probable fiscal outlook over the coming decade than what baseline budget projections would...
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Current Policy Extensions and Growth
If lawmakers extended various current policies, as opposed to letting them expire as they are set to under current law, what would happen to economic...
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Economic Projections in CBO's Budget Update
Since economic assumptions have such a big effect on fiscal projections, we have compared their new assumptions in the Updated Budget and Economic...
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CBO Releases Update on Budget and Economic Outlook
Today, CBO released an update to its economic and budget projections for the coming decade, originally reached in February and March. Under its...
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Bending the Aging Curve
We've spoken a lot about Social Security reform the last few days, in the context of solvency, sustainability, and direct effects on the budget. But...
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Social Security and Medicare Trustees Report Released
Today, the Social Security and Medicare Trustees released their annual reports on the financial status of the two programs. The Trustees now project...
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More from the Mid-Session Review
The OMB's Mid-Session Review (MSR) came out late on Friday afternoon with no fanfare from the Administration (though we did put out a paper yesterday)...
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OMB Releases Mid Session Review
The OMB released its Mid-Session Review today (see our press release here), showing slightly improved deficit numbers for this year, but still an...
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The OECD Weighs In
The OECD recently published a great report on possible fiscal scenarios, and the results are exactly as expected: if the advanced countries of the...
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CRFB Releases Report on Long-Term Effects of Health Reform
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...
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CBO Issues Monthly Budget Review
CBO issued its monthly review for June, finding that so far this year, the federal government has run a deficit of just over $1 trillion, $81 billion...