Fiscal Policy in the News

Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget co-chair Bill Frenzel will host an online chat conversation, 
 tomorrow, run by the Brookings Institution...

Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget co-chair Bill Frenzel is speaking about the budget deficit at The Brookings Institution
 tomorrow. Frenzel...

Recently, both the Washington Post ( Bad-News Budget) and the Financial Times ( Fiscal Challenges for a Recovering US) have written excellent...

MacGuineas, Guha, and Wessel on the NEWSHOUR, on the reappointment of Bernanke and the new budget numbers.

Warren Buffett has written in the New York Times that significant levels of U.S. spending will prove to pose problems for our economy and currency...

Austan Goolsbee, chief economist of President Obama's Economic Recovery Advisory Board appears below on the Daily Show with John Stewart. Goolsbee...

August 4 - Yesterday, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs reiterated the administration's pledge not to raise taxes on Americans earning less...

July 24 - Read Fred Hiatt's excellent interview with President Obama on health care reform and the need to deal with the fiscal crisis. Important...

July 17 - President Obama's chief economic adviser Lawrence Summers spoke today to the Peterson Institute for International Economics on "Rescuing and...