Budgets & Projections
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Where the Conference is Starting From
The first official meeting of the conference committee is expected to occur sometime next week, at which point the conferees will begin attempting to...
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New Poll Finds Broad Support for Comprehensive Debt Plan
The Campaign to Fix the Debt has recently released the results of a new national telephone poll that found broad support for a comprehensive deficit...
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The (Ongoing) Cost of the Government Shutdown
Now that the government shutdown and debt default threat are in the rearview mirror (for now), analysts have been taking time to survey the economic...
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Op-Ed: Hey Congress: Use This Moment
zpolitics | October 17, 2013 As we finally emerge from what was simply the most recent in a long series of short-term fiscal crises, it is abundantly...
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Sequester Replacement Must be Fiscally Responsible
Recent reports have suggested the new budget conference committee may focus its attention of a deal to replace sequestration. A recent paper from the...
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Every Budget Put the Debt on a Downward Path…and This One Should Too
In additional to reopening the government and suspending the debt ceiling, last night, both the House and Senate agreed to go to Budget Conference...
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Looks Like We Have a Deal
After a few weeks of government shutdown and a nerve-wracking lead-up to hitting the debt ceiling, the Senate leadership announced today it had come...
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Deficits are a First-Order Problem
Yesterday, Former Treasury Secretary and director of the National Economic Council Larry Summers argued that “budget deficits are now a second-order...
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Marc Goldwein: Don’t Believe the Myth That Debt Problem is a Myth
With the recent improvement in medium-term budget projections, some are trying to advance the myth that our debt problems have been solved. But as we...
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Op-Ed: Don’t Believe Myth That Debt Problem is a Myth
The Weekly Wonk | October 10, 2013 Last week, the government of the richest and most powerful nation in the world shut off its lights and closed its...
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Op-Ed: A Way Out Possible
The Hill | October 9, 2013 We are on a collision course with financial calamity. A first-time-ever failure to extend the federal debt limit would lead...
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One-Month T-Bill Shows Market Skittishness
As we continue to approach the October 17 deadline when the Treasury Department estimates that extraordinary measures will be exhausted, leaving...