Budgets & Projections
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Who's Going to Buy Our Debt Now?
June 10 - It seems like a no-brainer that the US should start planning how it will get its fiscal house in order when economic and financial recovery...
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Banks to repay TARP - issues ahead
June 9 - Treasury announced today that 10 of the nation's largest banks can now repay TARP borrowing because they had been able to raise capital in...
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Analysis of the President's FY2010 Budget
Recently, the White House released its comprehensive FY2010 budget request, including detailed proposals for each agency, along with “Analytical...
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Staff Working Paper #5: Content of the Budget Resolution
This paper reviews the classes of information included in the budget resolution. It then examines potential changes to the contents in an attempt to...
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Staff Working Paper #4: Joint vs. Concurrent Budget Resolution
This paper lays out a model for converting the concurrent budget resolution into a joint resolution. It includes a description of the model and a...
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Op-Ed: Fiscal Disorder - The Broken Budget Process and the Dire Need for Reform
Ripon Forum | April 21, 2009 This past February, four months after the beginning of the fiscal year, Congress passed the last bill needed to fund the...
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Staff Working Paper #3: Fiscal and Economic Goals and the Budget Resolution
The budget resolution should prompt debate about the implications of budgetary choices and aggregate totals for fiscal and economic policy, both near-...
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Comparing the FY2010 Budget Resolutions
Last week, the Budget Committees in both the House and Senate reported out their respective versions of the Budget Resolution, to be considered on the...
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Staff Working Paper #2: The Budget Process
How could the current budgetary decision-making process be improved? This paper looks at the current process and how the concurrent budget resolution...