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A Mutual Non-Aggression Pact for the Campaigns?
A recent editorial from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch argues for what they call a "mutual non-aggression pact on spending and deficits." In their view...
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Will We Get Another 1986 Soon?
Elaine Kamarck and James Pinkerton, co-chairs of The RATE Coalition, a bipartisan group dedicated to promote tax reform, write in today's The Hill...
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CBO Projects a Recession -- But How Deep?
We've warned many times before that going off the fiscal cliff would throw the economy into a double dip recession. With CBO's updated budget and...
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CRFB's Jason Peuquet on the Republican Candidates' Plans
On New America's weekly podcast series The Sidebar, CRFB Research Director Jason Peuquet added some analysis on Representative Paul Ryan's (R-WI)...
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CRFB's Newest Realistic Baseline
With the release of CBO's updated budget and economic outlook, we at CRFB have the opportunity to update our Realistic baseline. Recall that our...
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Uncertainty Stemming From Our Political Problems
A few days ago, CNBC highlighted a client note by Goldman Sachs strategist David Kostin about the fiscal cliff. In short, he advises them to be wary...
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What Else is New? Changes in CBO's Baseline
Naturally, when a new budget projection is released, as CBO's updated baseline was yesterday, a good question to ask is: what happened? It is...
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CBO's Updated Baseline Just Released
The Congressional Budget Office has just updated its Economic and Budget Outlook. We will be releasing a paper on changes to CBO's projections from...
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CBO's Updated Economic and Budget Outlook
CRFB has just released a new analysis of CBO's updated Budget and Economic Outlook. The CBO updates its baseline every year in January, March, and...
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MY VIEW: Eugene Steuerle August 2012
Today, in "The Government We Deserve," Eugene Steuerle wrote an opinion piece about the need for budget constraints alongside health care reforms. He...
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AP's Ohlemacher Presents Social Security Options
Last week, Social Security celebrated its 77th birthday. But with the surplus in the trust fund due to be exhausted by 2033, its next 77 years face...