Budgets & Projections
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Mankiw Agrees on the Target for Deficit Reduction
Former Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors and Harvard Professor Greg Mankiw explains how a sustainable budget would affect debt levels in a...
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Op-Ed: A Fiscal Deal or a Fiscal Crisis?
Politico | April 1, 2013 Now that Congress and the president have agreed to fund the government for the rest of this fiscal year — removing the threat...
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The Uncertainty of Long-Term Projections
The Economic Policy Institute's Ethan Pollack has a blog post questioning the accuracy and ultimate usefulness of long-term (75-year) budget...
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Op-Ed: Short-Term Congressional Budget Fixes Only Prevent Total Disaster
Forbes | March 28, 2013 In a pleasantly surprising move, the normally moribund Congress passed a Continuing Resolution (CR) to fund the government for...
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Alice Rivlin To Receive 2013 Robert M. Ball Award
CRFB board member and former CBO and OMB director Alice Rivlin is somewhat of a legend in the budget world, with a long line of work spanning from...
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An Interesting Analysis of Interest Rates
The Congressional Budget Office has been busy on its blog lately, posting both snapshots of federal programs and also publishing responses to...
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Notable Amendments to the Senate-Passed Budget
As the Senate worked on its FY 2014 budget resolution, which passed by a 50-49 vote late last week, hundreds of amendments were filed in a process...
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Comparing the Budgets on Spending, Revenue, Deficits, and Debt
Update: This blog has been updated since its original posting to incorporate the House Democratic, Republican Study Commitee, and Senator Rand Paul (R...
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MY VIEW: George Voinovich
In today's Cincinnati Enquirer, CRFB board member and former Senator George Voinovich (R-OH) calls on Ohio's congressional members to get serious...
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Budgets Agree on One Thing: Putting Debt on a Downward Path
Although the budget resolutions out now take a variety of paths to deficit reduction, we've noticed something that all have in common: they all...
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Fill in the Blanks: The Unspecified Parts of the Budget Resolutions
Continuing in our analysis of the FY 2014 budget resolutions, we will be discussing the things in the budgets that the authors didn't tell you. There...
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The Government Funding Bill: Winners and Losers
The field has been narrowed from 68 to 64 teams, and the NCAA Tournament is ready to kick off in full this afternoon. But the Big Dance isn't the only...