Economic Recovery Measures

Yesterday, CBO released an update on the effects of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) on employment and economic output in the...

With the housing market still depressed almost five years after the housing bubble burst, the Obama administration is seeking input from private...

June has come to a close. With that also comes an end of the second round of quantitative easing, known as QE2. QE2 started off small in August 2010...

Yesterday, Treasury announced that it would be selling its 6.6 percent equity stake in Chrysler to Fiat, which represents the last outstanding TARP...

In early 2009, lawmakers enacted an economic stimulus package to help stem the economic freefall which was shedding hundreds of thousands of jobs per...

Yesterday, CBO released a report on the effect of automatic stabilizers on the deficit, showing that in recent years, they have added hundreds of...

Back in December, we had surmised that due to recent developments with Citigroup, GM, and AIG, CBO's cost estimate of TARP would come down further...

Meet Kate, a fictitious 41 year old Generation X member. How will our leaders’ fiscal choices affect her life? In our fifth and final installment of...

Brackets – As many busy themselves today going over the brackets for the big tourney, picking the next Cinderella and who will win it all, the real...

While the budget world is caught up in the President's budget, it's time to celebrate an important birthday. On this day two years ago, President...

Last month, we reported the positive developments that were happening with the major players--GM, Citigroup, and AIG--still left in the Troubled Asset...

Yesterday the Federal Reserve announced it would be paying a record $78.4 billion to the U.S. Treasury for 2010. It accumulated this large sum from...