Budgets & Projections

The message from the end of the year deficit number is clear: we must start planning how to get the deficit under control. A $1.4 TRILLION deficit is...

Here are the highlights from this weekend’s editorials on fiscal and budget policy: In an editorial titled, “The Greatest Show on Earth,” The Wall...

Today the Congressional Budget released their analysis of the amended version of the America’s Healthy Future Act of 2009, the health care reform...

Faced with massive debt burdens coming out of the economic and financial crisis – even before the retirement and health care tsunami hits – experts...

Saturday marked the one-year anniversary of the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), established as part of the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act...

This weekend, there have been a number of editorials about fiscal and budget policy. Among them: USA Today argued for "patching" the estate tax next...

According to Bloomberg News, the number of Social Security beneficiaries increased by 19 percent, or 2.6 million retired workers, in FY 2009. This...

Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget co-chair Bill Frenzel will host an online chat conversation, 
 tomorrow, run by the Brookings Institution...

Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget co-chair Bill Frenzel is speaking about the budget deficit at The Brookings Institution
 tomorrow. Frenzel...

UPDATE: Read Elmendorf's take on his talk . Today, several of us at the CRFB staff attended a National Economists Club lunch with Congressional Budget...

We spend a lot of time warning about budget gimmicks. But OMB’s new contest for federal employees to submit ideas for how the government can save...

Today, the Treasury announced the end of the Guarantee Program for Money Market Funds. According to the Treasury, risk of a “catastrophic failure” of...