Fiscal Plans

Earlier today, Texas Governor and Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry announced details of his " Cut, Balance and Grow" plan for spending and...

Yesterday, presidential candidate and Congressman Ron Paul (R-TX) released his budget blueprint for what would be his first term in office, which he...

Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain's economic plan received a lot of attention at Tuesday night's debate. Regardless of what one thinks...

CRFB has updated its table of submissions to the Super Committee with four new plans from September. The first plan is from the Center for American...

The chained CPI, a policy option that has been endorsed by experts, organizations, and many others from across the political spectrum and has just...

The parade of submissions to the Super Committee has started. Over the next few months the Super Committee is likely to be inundated by fiscal plans...

With President Obama's deficit reduction plan set to be released on Monday, we already have some idea of what will be in it: reductions in tax...

As the first meeting of the Super Committee has come and gone, it is important to take a look at the policies that they could consider. CRFB's table...

CBO has just released its August Budget and Economic Outlook. You can find it here. Under current law, assuming policymakers make no changes to what's...

In the Christian Science Monitor, Donald Marron argues that the distinction in fiscal policy should not be between hawks and doves, but rather foxes...

On OMB's blog, OMB director Jack Lew talked about his instructions to agencies to cut 5 percent off their 2011 budget for their FY 2013 request. In...

Faithful readers of this blog know by now how the trigger contained in the Budget Control Act generally works. The BCA creates a twelve-member Joint...