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CBO Issues Monthly Budget Review
CBO issued its monthly review for June, finding that so far this year, the federal government has run a deficit of just over $1 trillion, $81 billion...
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CBO Releases Report on Social Security Reform Options
Last Friday, CBO released a report on 30 options for changing the Social Security system, analyzing both the savings and distributional effects of the...
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‘Line’ Items: Post-Fourth Edition
After the Fireworks – The Independence Day celebrations have concluded. The fireworks have fizzled and most of us are back to work. Capitol Hill is...
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CRFB Releases Analysis of CBO's Long Term Outlook
CRFB just released its analysis of the long term outlook. The analysis noted that while the debt picture has improved somewhat under CBO's extended...
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CBO Releases Sobering New Long Term Outlook
CBO’s Long Term Budget Outlook, released today (see our press release here), paints a more alarming picture of the U.S. debt path than had been...
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Fiscal Commission Holds Public Forum
This morning, CBO Director Doug Elmendorf released CBO's long-term outlook at the third public meeting of The National Commission on Fiscal...
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Spending and Revenues in the Long Term Outlook
After much anticipation, the CBO has released its Long Term Budget Outlook, which gives the first glimpse at the long-term effects of the recently...
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CBO Issues Its Monthly Report on the Deficit, Outlays, and Revenues
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) issued its Monthly Review late last week (and today, the Treasury released its Monthly Statement for May). CBO...
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Deficits, GDP, and Automatic Stabilizers
According to a new CBO report, automatic stabilizers added about $282 billion to the federal deficit last year and are projected to add $351 billion...
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CBO Estimates the Effects of the Stimulus
CBO recently put out its quarterly estimate of the macroeconomic effects of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA). They found that...
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The Budgetary Impacts of Fed Actions
Yesterday CBO issued a very interesting report on the budgetary impact of the Federal Reserve's actions to address the economic and financial crisis...