Budgets & Projections
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CRFB Comments on the CBO Outlook
CRFB's newest paper dives into the set of projections underlying CBO's Long Term Budget Outlook. The report shows two very divergent paths for the...
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Report: CBO’s Long-Term Budget Outlook
Correction: This paper originally stated that the Social Security trust fund is projected to be exhausted in 2033. The combined Social Security and...
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Dynamic Scoring Explained
What is dynamic scoring? How are legislative proposals currently scored? CRFB's latest policy paper details the process and methods that the...
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Report: Understanding Dynamic Scoring
Download a 2-page summary of this document, published December 2014.
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Fiscal Fact Checker: How Much Has Spending Increased Under President Obama?
Update: The text has been updated to include spending growth numbers for President Bush excluding financial rescue programs. An article by Rex Nutting...
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Minnesotan Praise for "Debate the Debt"
CRFB has called for this year’s presidential candidates to " Debate the Debt" by dedicating one of the three presidential debates to proposals for...
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A Lively Debate on the Affordable Care Act
Yesterday, Medicare trustee Charles Blahous and former chief economist for Vice President Biden Jared Bernstein had a debate about the fiscal...
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CBO Joins the Cliff Estimating Game
Estimates of the fiscal cliff that is set to occur at the end of the year have been popping up in recent weeks. Now CBO has lended its voice to the...
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How Big is the Fiscal Cliff?
UPDATE: This blog has been updated to include CBO's brief about the fiscal cliff. About a month ago, we reported our estimates of how much the fiscal...
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No Surprise: Fiscal Cliff Causing A Lot of Uncertainty
We have been warning for a few months now about the potential consequences of the fiscal cliff -- and adding to the debt by averting it all together...
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Erskine Bowles' Message Hits Home
On Sunday, Fiscal Commission co-chair and former White House Chief of Staff Erskine Bowles delivered a speech at American University's School of...
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Both Sides of "Taxmaggedon"
Former Sen. Judd Gregg (R-NH) weighs in on the impact of "taxmaggedon" in The Hill today.