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Check Out Our Live Fact-Checking of the First Presidential Debate!
The wait is finally over. Tonight in Denver will be the first of the three presidential debates, and there will be an opportunity to hear directly...
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What Works and What Doesn't for Deficit Reduction
The IMF's most recent World Economic Outlook has a very helpful chapter looking at six case studies on countries who have dealt with a high debt...
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How the Fiscal Cliff Will Affect Taxpayers
UPDATE: Tax Policy Center also has a video in which TPC director Donald Marron walks through their findings. It is no secret that the fiscal cliff...
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Happy Fiscal New Year!
Today, October 1, marks the first day of FY 2013, with FY 2012 now in the history books. Over the past year we have seen some setbacks, like the...
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Millennials Weigh in on Simpson-Bowles
Fix the Debt co-founders and Fiscal Commission co-chairs Al Simpson and Erskine Bowles have been busy traveling around the country speaking with...
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Third Way: Both Revenue Increases and Spending Cuts Are Needed
Two new Third Way papers by David Brown, Gabe Horwitz, David Kendall together present an arguement that we have been making for a while now—that the...
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Geithner Calls for a "Go Smart" Approach
In an interview with Charlie Rose at the Clinton Global Initiative's annual meeting, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner endorsed a "Go Smart"...
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Only One Week Left Until the Presidential Debates
The first presidential debate is now only one week away on October 3 at the University of Denver. With much of the first debate focusing on the...
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Armed Services Committee Senators Call For a Deal
Yesterday, a group of six senators from both parties signed a letter to Senator Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell...
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149 Mayors Call for a Debt Deal
The United States Conference of Mayors has written a letter signed by 149 mayors across the country, a bipartisan collection including the likes of...
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FY 2013 Budget is Settled...For Now
Late last week, the Senate passed a continuing resolution (CR) by a 62-30 vote to keep the government funded for the next six months with only a week...
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Erskine Bowles and Al Simpson: Debt Solution Must Be Bipartisan
In today's USA Today, Fix the Debt co-founders and Simpson-Bowles co-chairs Erskine Bowles and Al Simpson write that each party can't just have its...