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Event Recap: The 2013 Fiscal Summit
Today, the Peter G. Peterson Foundation held its third annual Fiscal Summit, assembling a number of prominent current and former lawmakers, experts...
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JCT Hands Out Programs for the Tax Reform Debate
As work on tax reform gets going, the Joint Committee on Taxation has provided a 568-page report laying out just about everything you need to know...
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A Budgetary Look at Immigration Reform
As lawmakers gear up to debate immigration reform in the weeks and months ahead, it will likely coincide with the ongoing budget debate in Washington...
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Deficit Reduction Doesn't Need to Be Front-loaded
Regular readers of The Bottom Line are probably familiar with our goal of putting the debt on a downward path as a share of the economy over the long...
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On Reinhart and Rogoff
Harvard professors Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff’s (R&R) 2010 paper, Growth in a Time of Debt, has been all over the news in the past few weeks...
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The Real Corporate Tax Game
A recent article in The New York Times entitled " The Corporate Tax Game" details the tricky politics of corporate tax reform, especially when it...
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Upton and Hatch's Blueprint to Reform Medicaid
This week, Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, and Rep. Fred Upton, Chairman of the House Energy and Commerce...
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A Roundup of Our Analysis on the Bipartisan Path Forward
Over the last two weeks, the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget has been analyzing the new proposal from former Fiscal Commission co-chairs...
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Expanding Principal Writedowns to Fannie and Freddie
Sometimes, the timing of things can really work out in Washington. Yesterday, President Obama nominated Rep. Mel Watt (D-NC) to be the head of the...
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MY VIEW: Laura Tyson May 2013
In a piece for Project Syndicate, former Council of Economic Advisers chair and CRFB board member Laura Tyson discusses the recent slowdown in health...
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Op-Ed: America's Healthy Path to Fiscal Health
Project Syndicate | April 30, 2013 Over the last five years, the growth of health-care spending in the United States has slowed dramatically – to the...
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User Fees in the Bipartisan Path Forward
Among the many proposals in Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles's new plan, “ A Bipartisan Path Forward,” is the increased presence of user fees for many...