Budgets & Projections
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The National Debt Must Be A Priority For The Next President
No matter how difficult the conversation, the national debt needs to be a top priority in the 2016 presidential election, and the next president needs...
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CBO Closes the Book on the 2009 Stimulus
CBO unofficially closed the books on the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA, or the 2009 stimulus), putting out its final report on the...
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Joyce Reflects on CBO at 40
Next Tuesday will be the 40th anniversary of the beginning of the Congressional Budget Office, and University of Maryland Professor Phillip Joyce has...
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Not Living Up to Potential: CBO Sheds Light On Its Economic Projections
As we've mentioned frequently, budget projections and economic forecasts are inextricably linked in determining both the nominal dollar budget numbers...
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Evaluating The Cost of Climate Change
We've written extensively about the President's budget since it was released, both in our analysis of the budget and in our blog series. Also notable...
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President's Budget Proposes to Completely Wind Down War Spending
President Obama sent a letter to Congress yesterday asking for a formal three-year authorization for a campaign against ISIS. At the same time, though...
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The President's Budget in 8 Charts (FY2016 Edition)
In addition to a paper and blog series on the President's budget, CRFB has created a number of tables, graphs, and charts focused on specific aspects...
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Chartbook: The President's FY 2016 Budget
For an annotated version of these charts, see our blog post "The President's Budget in 8 Charts (FY2016 Edition)"
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Erskine Bowles: The Risks of Delaying Fiscal Reforms
Erskine Bowles is a former co-chair of the Simpson-Bowles Fiscal Commission and a member of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. He wrote a...
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Heritage Foundation Publishes Budget Book of Proposed Spending Cuts
Last week, the Heritage Foundation released the Budget Book, a catalog of 106 ways to cut the budget or reduce the size of government totaling roughly...
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The Case for "Mindful Austerity"
In a commentary published on Monday, the Wall Street Journal’s Greg Ip wrote about President Obama’s budget and the declaration that it is moving away...
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