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Line Items: Ups and Downs Edition
Ending the Shutdown and Cranking Up the Debt Limit – It’s been an up-and-down past couple of weeks. The federal government has been shut down since...
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Looks Like We Have a Deal
After a few weeks of government shutdown and a nerve-wracking lead-up to hitting the debt ceiling, the Senate leadership announced today it had come...
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Marc Goldwein: Hard Choices Required to Address Looming Debt
The prolonged government shutdown and debt ceiling debate are a clear indication that our government is not functioning as it should. Furloughed...
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Deficits are a First-Order Problem
Yesterday, Former Treasury Secretary and director of the National Economic Council Larry Summers argued that “budget deficits are now a second-order...
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Bad Ideas Watch: Shutdown/Debt Ceiling Edition
Bipartisan discussions over how to end the partial government shutdown and raise the debt ceiling are coming down to the wire as this week begins...
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House Setting Into Motion Farm Bill Conference
Naturally, the country has been consumed by the developments (or lack thereof) in the government shutdown and debt ceiling impasse. But there is some...
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Keep Gimmicks Out Of A Deal
As the government shutdown continues into its 11th day, the two parties have just begun having serious negotiations about reopening the government and...
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Marc Goldwein: Don’t Believe the Myth That Debt Problem is a Myth
With the recent improvement in medium-term budget projections, some are trying to advance the myth that our debt problems have been solved. But as we...
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MY VIEW: Maya MacGuineas October 10 2013
In yesterday's New York Times, the paper asks in its " Room for Debate" series what federal spending we are better off without in light of the...
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Op-Ed: Don’t Believe Myth That Debt Problem is a Myth
The Weekly Wonk | October 10, 2013 Last week, the government of the richest and most powerful nation in the world shut off its lights and closed its...
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Kent Conrad: A Way Out Possible
The government is still shut down, and the debt ceiling is looming around the corner. Markets are beginning to worry, and the country is facing its...
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MY VIEW: Rudy Penner October 2013
As we draw ever nearer to the projected deadline for hitting the debt ceiling, Congress still has not been able to make a deal. Today, CRFB board...