Budgets & Projections

When lawmakers return from August recess in a few weeks they will turn their attention to FY 2014 government funding, which requires appropriations to...

Late last week, the Washington Post's David Fahrenthold published a piece claiming that "big government is mostly unchanged" since 2010, when...

The slowdown in health care spending growth in recent years has been a hotly debated topic, as experts try to figure out the source of the slowdown...

Frequent readers of this blog will be familiar with projections of long term debt. But the Peterson Foundation has found an interesting interactive...

Even though Washington slows down in August, several think tanks are staking out positions in advance of this fall's pending fight over the debt limit...

Today, a piece in the Financial Times shows the unnecessary damage being done by the ongoing sequester -- in this case, sharp cuts to federal support...

A New York Times piece today lays out a possible "mini-bargain" to move past the debt ceiling and expiration of government funding. The piece, "...

In his column in today's Wall Street Journal and an accompanying audio clip, David Wessel takes on the question before Washington: Is the budget...

Nearly two weeks ago, the Bureau of Economic Analysis released its GDP report with a $560 billion upward revision for 2012. As we explained at the...

Update: Post-sequester figures have been revised according to the most recent estimates. Another month has gone by, and while on paper the budget...

As of Wednesday's GDP report, GDP for fiscal year 2012 was revised upward by roughly $560 billion to a total of $16.2 trillion. This almost Houdini...