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‘Line’ Items: Lame Duck Edition
Roast (Lame) Duck is Served – The lame duck session of Congress begins today, but it is already being panned as unlikely to be very productive. As we...
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Op-Ed: Put off Retirement
New York Times | November 14, 2010 Maya MacGuineas is the president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and director of the Fiscal...
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MarketWatch: November 8-12, 2010
Domestic and global financial markets are being driven by major cross-currents once again. On the home front, dust is still settling in the markets...
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Some Reactions to the Co-Chairs' Proposal
With the unexpected release of the draft proposal from the co-chairs of the President’s fiscal commission, the naysayers have come out of the woodwork...
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Warner's Bipartisan Solution to the Tax Cut Problem
In an op-ed in the Financial Times today, Senator Mark Warner (D-VA) discussed tax breaks for the wealthy, an issue on everyone’s minds in the wake of...
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China: Nervous over US Policy Management
As taxpayers, politicians, journalists and wonks grapple with the wide-ranging fiscal plan launched by the chairmen of the President’s debt commission...
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David Walker: CNN Commentary
CRFB board member David Walker has a commentary on CNN's website today titled, "The Time for Fiscal Action is Now." Read it here. My Views" are works...
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Op-Ed: Finally, Good News On The National Debt
AOL News | November 11, 2010 It's not every day that the country receives some encouraging news on the deficit and debt front. But Wednesday just so...
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The Tax Side of the Fiscal Commission's Draft Proposal
With the White House fiscal commission Co-Chair's proposal out in public, it's time to continue looking at the specifics of the plan. For this blog...
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Fiscal Commission Targets Federal Spending
Continuing our analysis of the President’s Fiscal Commission Draft Report, let's look at what the Co-Chair proposal does on the spending side of the...
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Getting Back in the Black
In Getting Back in the Black, the Peterson-Pew Commission on Budget Reform calls on policymakers to reform the federal budget process in order to help...