Fiscal Policy in the News

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

Laura Tyson, a former chair of President Clinton’s Council of Economic Advisers, warned in a Bloomberg op-ed this morning that cutting back on fiscal...

CRFB board member and former CBO and OMB director, Alice Rivlin, argued in Bloomberg, today, that policymakers should put a deficit-reduction plan in...

John Podesta and Mike Ettlinger of the Center for American Progress have an op-ed in Financial Times today, calling for a 10 year plan to close the...

In a blog post earlier this week, Stan Collender presented a laundry list of suggestions about how deficit hawks can be more effective. As a proud...

Tim Penny, co-chair of the Peterson-Pew Commission on Budget Reform, was interviewed today for an hour on his home state public radio station. Saying...

Earlier this year the White House created a contest for federal employees that was focused on producing real ideas that would yield monetary savings...

On December 14, the Peterson-Pew Commission on Budget Reform hosted a public event at the National Press Club to announce the release of its report...

The Peterson-Pew Commission’s “Red Ink Rising” plan for American lawmakers has earned some black ink worldwide too since its release, not to mention...

Warning that the out-of-control federal debt places the economic future of our nation at risk, the Peterson-Pew Commission on Budget Reform this...

The Washington Post, this morning, warned that it is "time to start panicking" about the long-term debt, and that bipartisan action would be needed to...

There’s a reason India Times just picked up David Lightman’s story “Rising debt threatens to derail Congress on just about everything.” The world...