Fiscal Policy in the News

CRFB President Maya MacGuineas will join a panel of experts including CRFB board members Pete Peterson and David Walker, as well as former Senator...

Here are the highlights from this weekend’s editorials on fiscal and budget policy: The Wall Street Journal questioned whether the economic recovery...

Here are the highlights from this weekend’s editorials on fiscal and budget policy: The New York Times believed that the suits made by various state...

Here are the highlights from this weekend’s editorials on fiscal and budget policy: Shortly after the House passed the Senate health care bill, the...

For the first time since Gallup has started asking the question, the federal deficit tops the list of problems Americans say the nation will face 25...

In the March/April edition of Foreign Affairs, Niall Ferguson offers an interesting piece on the fall of empires – arguing that most collapses of...

On Tuesday, March 9, the New York Times reported about how state and local pension funds are changing their investment strategies to improve their...

Here are the highlights from this weekend’s editorials on fiscal and budget policy: The New York Times called on Congress to do more to create jobs...

Here are the highlights from this weekend’s editorials on fiscal and budget policy: The New York Times argued that the temporarily higher federal...

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CNBC’s Steve Liesman attended the “Avoiding a Government Debt Crisis” conference convened by the Peterson-Pew Commission on Budget Reform yesterday...

According to Lori Montgomery: Mr. Obama will name former Clinton White House Chief of Staff Erskine Bowles and former Republican Sen. Alan Simpson as...