Budgets & Projections
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The Economic Outlook in CBO's New Budget Baseline
CBO's new budget baseline released yesterday relies on its own economic projections over the next decade. After comparing their economic projections...
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CRFB Releases Analysis of CBO's February Baseline
CBO's release of its annual Budget and Economic Outlook is a treasure trove of information, sometimes not easily digestible. To help put all that...
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It's Showtime: CBO's New Budget and Economic Projections
For 49ers and Ravens fans, the Super Bowl was the big game of the 2012 NFL season. For budget wonks, today is that day, as CBO has released its budget...
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Op-Ed: No Budget, No Pay - No Deal, No Break
Politico | February 5, 2013 Believe it or not, Democrats and Republicans sometimes come together and do something positive in Washington, and that has...
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More Economists in Favor of Smart Debt Reduction
A recent blog post by International Monetary Fund (IMF) economists Carlo Cottarelli and Philip Gerson on the IMF Direct blog highlights the importance...
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Op-Ed: A Compromise For the Nation
The Hill | February 2, 2013 The president says he is going to spend the first few months of his second term traveling the country attacking...
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Doing More Than Just Hitting the Target
Our blog yesterday noted that the debate over stimulus versus deficit reduction is much more nuanced than is often portrayed. Although these positions...
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MY VIEW: Rudy Penner February 2013
In a Tax Policy Center blog, Urban Institute fellow and former CBO director Rudy Penner makes the case for going beyond the amount of deficit...
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Op-Ed: The Risks of Dumbing Down Fiscal Goals
TaxVox | February 1, 2013 In one of the more dangerous fiscal developments of recent months, some on the left are defining successful deficit...
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Economists in Favor of Smart Deficit Reduction
A recent op-ed from Joe Scarborough in Politico has brought back attention to the stimulus vs. deficit reduction debate. Some commentators like Paul...
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Bowles: National Debt Threatens U.S. Innovation
In an interview with Forbes contributor Henry Doss, former Fiscal Commission co-chair Erskine Bowles explains just how our unsustainable debt...