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Budget Negotiations: Will Showmanship or Statesmanship Prevail?
The term "shutdown" is being tossed around in Washington as much as "Cinderella" has been on ESPN as of late. With the current continuing resolution...
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‘Line’ Items: Blossoms Edition
In Bloom – Spring is officially here, though the weather would have one think otherwise. Frigid temperatures and even a little snow in the Washington...
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"Meet the Generations": Generation X
Meet Kate, a fictitious 41 year old Generation X member. How will our leaders’ fiscal choices affect her life? In our fifth and final installment of...
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Ten Former CEA Chairs Call for "Intense Negotiations" on Long-Term Deficits
A bipartisan group of ten former chairs of the President's Council of Economic Advisors (CEA) published an op-ed in Politico today stating that the...
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Op-Ed: Fix the Deficit? We Can Do That
TIME | March 17, 2011 It's rare that those of us concerned about the nation's fiscal course come bearing good news. The federal debt, after all, is as...
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CBO Projects Slightly Smaller Deficits under Current Law
Along with CBO's preliminary analysis of the President's Budget on Friday came an update in CBO's baseline, which actually shows a $234 billion...
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Op-Ed: Deficit Pessimist Sees Hope for a Deal
CNN Money | March 21, 2011 I think we a can find a way to get a large-scale budget agreement that tackles our insane multi-trillion dollar debt in...
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We Could've Told You...
Last week, CBO showed that the President's Budget was way too optimistic about its projections of deficits and debt. But CBO's findings would not have...
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CBO Releases Analysis of President's Budget
CBO has just released their preliminary analysis of the President's Budget. Be sure to check back to CRFB and The Bottom Line soon for more analysis...
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