Budgets & Projections

This paper reviews the classes of information included in the budget resolution. It then examines potential changes to the contents in an attempt to...

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...

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...

The budget resolution should prompt debate about the implications of budgetary choices and aggregate totals for fiscal and economic policy, both near-...

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...

How could the current budgetary decision-making process be improved? This paper looks at the current process and how the concurrent budget resolution...

Last week, the CBO released its Preliminary Analysis of The President’s Budget, projecting a significantly worse fiscal situation than the...

Although CRFB commends the President for having a specific fiscal goal and for honestly budgeting for expected costs, several items and trends in the...

Today, the White House released an outline of the FY2010 Budget. The President’s budget has a specific fiscal goal, accounts for policies omitted by...

This paper looks at the 1967 President’s Commission on Budget Concepts and which concepts need to be re-visited by the Peterson-Pew Commission on...