Budgets & Projections
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CBO: A Growing Debt Burden Is a Risky Path to Be On
Continuing with CRFB's analysis of CBO's latest long-term budget projections, we now turn our attention to one of the central themes throughout CBO's...
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Interest Costs in CBO's Long-Term Projections
As part of our blog series on CBO's recent long-term budget and economic projections, we now turn our focus to the fastest growing part of the budget...
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CBO: Social Security Looks Much Worse Than We Thought
Although some argue that policymakers can wait to solve our long-term entitlement problems, CBO's recent Long-Term Budget Outlook suggests otherwise...
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CBO Still Unsure Whether Recent Health Care Slowdown Means Lower Long-Term Growth
Update: The second graph has been corrected to show the correct year for each line. It is no secret that the growth of federal health care spending is...
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Op-Ed: Weak Leaders Fumble the Public Purse
Washington Times | September 23, 2013 The past decade has been a disaster when it comes to fiscal stewardship and political leadership. Our official...
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What Do High Debt Levels Do To Our Economy?
Politicians and economists have long talked about the negative effects of an accumulating national debt, but cannot always quantify their position...
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What Happened to the Alternative Fiscal Scenario?
Update: CBO has now released its official Alternative Fiscal Scenario estimates (tab 6 of the Excel). They find that debt reaches 165 percent of GDP...
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CBO Releases Long-Term Budget Outlook
It's here — CBO has released its updated long-term baseline. Since December, many commentators have attempted to see where we stand since the fiscal...
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CRFB's Breakdown of the Long-Term Outlook
CBO's Long-Term Budget Outlook is a sizeable 126-page document with tons of facts and figures, and an accompanying spreadsheet with even more data. In...
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Op-Ed: Reason to Hope for Fiscal Sanity
The Hill | September 17, 2013 For more than a decade, I have dedicated myself to sounding the alarm about our government’s fiscal mismanagement and...
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