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Social Security and National Security
The Bottom Line continues its blog series highlighting our Ten Questions to Ask the Candidates ahead of the mid-term elections. 5. Strengthening...
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MarketWatch: October 25-29, 2010
All eyes are on next week’s meeting of the Fed’s Open Market Committee (FOMC), the monetary policy setting body of the Fed. As priced in by the...
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MY VIEW: Gene Steuerle October 2010
Fixing the Nation's Four-Tranche Universal Health System U.S. citizens soon will be participating in a four-part, nearly universal, health care system...
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NTU, US PIRG and Heritage Get Specific
Yesterday was a big day for getting specific as the National Taxpayers Union and the United States Public Interest Research Group, as well as the...
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Pay As You Go and the Tax Cuts
Continuing in our discussion of (what we believe to be the most important!) Ten Questions to Ask the Candidates leading up to this coming Tuesday's...
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Establishing Goals and Demolishing Myths
Last week CRFB provided Ten Questions to Ask the Candidates on fiscal policy as a way to help voters gauge how serious a candidate truly is regarding...
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How to Build a Fiscal Consolidation Package: Some Lessons from the IMF
“Virtually all advanced economies are likely to conduct fiscal consolidation at some point in the future to put their fiscal positions back on a...
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A Letter in Support of Raising the Retirement Age
Nine months since the creation of the Fiscal Commission, we are now just one month away from the scheduled release of its report/recommendations. For...
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CNN Money Exclusive: Britain's Austerity: 4 Lessons for Washington
CRFB President Maya MacGuineas has another commentary on CNN Money, discussing Britain's fiscal austerity plan, setting the right place and the...
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Standard and Poor's Upgrades British Debt Outlook
Today, Standard and Poor’s reaffirmed their rating of the U.K.'s AAA debt instruments in response to the UK’s recently devised fiscal consolidation...
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Blinder on the Fiscal Policy Paradox
In an op-ed in today’s Wall Street Journal, Alan Blinder discusses his frustrations with what he dubs the “fiscal policy paradox”: that the economy...
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Demagoguing 101: Social Security
With the November elections just two weeks, demagoguing has reached a fever pitch. So, predictably, when the SSA sent a letter to Rep. Earl Pomeroy...