Budgets & Projections

Right on the two-year anniversary of its enactment, the Troubled Asset Relief Program's (TARP) authority to disburse new money ended on Sunday. The...

Should Old Performance be Forgot, and Never Brought to Mind? – The new fiscal year (2011) began on Friday. Instead of imbibing in champagne, CRFB...

The growth play from September has spilled over into October, although cross-currents are apparent and volatility should be expected. Economic news...

A Balanced Plan to Stabilize Public Debt and Promote Economic Growth Yesterday, we released a new budget blueprint to stabilize the debt by the end of...

CRFB live tweeted the fifth public meeting of the President's fiscal commission on our Twitter page ( www.twitter.com/budgethawks) this morning! For...

Update 09-30-10: The Senate passed the CR last night on a 69-30 vote. The House soon followed with a successful 228-194 vote. An amendment from...

Not Much Worth Remembering – As September closes this week, it is clear that lawmakers already have one foot out the door; anxious to return home to...

Managing to perform below the already-low bar set by recent precedent, Congress will not finish work on any FY 2011 appropriations bills before the...

Today, the House passed HR 5297, the small business bill that had been stalled in Congress for weeks. It is expected that President Obama will sign it...

Today the Republican caucus of the House of Representatives released an agenda-setting document as a part of its strategy to take control of the House...

The remarkable level of austerity proposed in Britain’s new emergency budget made news around the world (see our earlier blog for details) as, in the...