Economics

Commission Coming – The White House says President Obama will create a fiscal commission by executive order within days. Meanwhile, Republicans still...

Fearless economists braved the Washington snow this week to walk through the doors of the Announcement Effect Club via their testimony before the...

Experts concerned about the nation’s fiscal and economic outlook braved the snow yesterday to participate in a Senate Budget Committee hearing on...

In a recent economic study, André Meier, Giancarlo Corsetti, and Gernot Müller found that announcing significant fiscal retrenchment (ie deficit...

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geither has just joined CRFB's ' Announcement Effect Club', a group of prominent economists and leaders who have called for...

President Obama released a Fiscal 2011 budget request today that would spend some $3.834 trillion next year and projects a deficit of $1.267 trillion...

Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz stopped by New America this week to discuss his new book "Freefall", about our economic and financial crisis. For the...

Roll out the red carpet and velvet rope, CRFB’s new list of prominent economists, organizations, and opinion leaders that have joined us in suggesting...

Since CRFB called for a Fiscal Recovery Plan in July, a growing number of prominent economists, organizations, and opinion leaders have joined us in...

At the start of the new decade, one in every ten Americans is unemployed. By broader measures of unemployment (including discouraged workers who may...

Over the weekend one of our favorite bloggers, EconomistMom, joined an important discussion prompted by a Stan Collender blog that called out deficit...

At this week’s American Economic Association meetings in Atlanta, two economists, Kenneth Rogoff and Carmen Reinhart, explore how high levels of...