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Marc Goldwein on NPR's Planet Money: How to Get 3% Growth
Read moreAchieving 3 percent sustained annual growth would be incredibly difficult, yet that assumption is embedded in President Trump’s proposed budget. In an...
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Maya MacGuineas: Why is Trump's 3-percent growth target pure folly? Because math.
Read moreMaya MacGuineas is president of the nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and head of the Campaign to Fix the Debt. She recently...
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How Fast Can America Grow?
Read moreOfficial projections show real economic growth will average less than 2 percent annually over the next decade. However, some policymakers have...
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Policies to Grow the Economy
Read moreThe aging of the population will make achieving past levels of economic growth much more difficult in the years ahead. The Congressional Budget Office...
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Increasing Infrastructure Investment Must Be Paid For
Read moreIn a recent interview with The New York Times, President Trump said that he wants to invest $1 trillion in infrastructure because "we are borrowing...
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CBO Economic Forecast Sees Major Headwinds Facing Growth
Read morePredicting what the economy will look like over the next 30 years is no easy task, but the assumptions in the Congressional Budget Office’s (CBO) Long...
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Alice Rivlin: Don’t undermine the Congressional Budget Office. Use it.
Read moreCongress faces a daunting legislative agenda: Health care is “complicated,” as President Trump recently discovered. So are tax reform and spending...
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Statement by Maya MacGuineas on the Inauguration of Donald Trump
Read moreThe Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget welcomes Donald Trump and Mike Pence as the President and Vice President of the United States. The new...
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Don't Count on 4% Growth
Read moreDuring the campaign, President-elect Trump frequently claimed his policies would grow the economy by 4 percent per year, also mentioning growth...
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Maya MacGuineas on Face the Nation
Read moreCommittee for a Responsible Federal Budget President Maya MacGuineas appeared on Face the Nation on November 20, 2016.
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Trump Will Face Highest Debt-to-GDP Ratio of Any New President Since Truman
Read moreWhen President-elect Donald Trump takes the oath of office on January 20, 2017, debt as a share of the economy will be higher than at the start of any...
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Are Bond Markets Signaling the "Announcement Effect"?
Read moreSince last week's election results, markets have reacted by pushing the yield for ten-year Treasury bonds up more than 0.3 percentage points to 2.2...