Pete Davis over at Capital Gains and Games joined the Announcement Effect Club over the weekend and FDIC head Sheila Bair came very close. In a blog...

President Obama announced today that he is freezing federal pay for the next two years. This action will save $60 billion over the next ten years, and...

As Thanksgiving approaches, we at CRFB wanted to take a moment to reflect on what we are thankful for. We are most thankful for the Simpson-Bowles...

We at CRFB have been calling for people to Get Specific on ways to deal with our long-term fiscal crisis for quite some time. Well, since that has...

The Economist joined the Announcement Effect Club last week in an article calling for leadership on the deficit. Following many other plans put out...

Talking Turkey – Congress takes a break this week for Thanksgiving. Lawmakers can be thankful for the brief respite, but the time is quickly coming...

Of particular interest for us, Fed Chairman Bernanke noted the following in his speech today on “Rebalancing the Global Economy” at the European...

Good news on the domestic front breathed some life into the Dow this week. The new (and, it appears, improved) General Motors came to market to shed...

The Senate late Thursday passed another short-term “doc fix” that spares physicians from a 23 percent Medicare payment reduction through the...

Ireland, under attack by financial markets for its economic, financial and fiscal problems, may be getting assistance from the international community...

Many of the recent debt reduction plans—including, the fiscal commission's Co-Chairs' recent proposal, the Galston-MacGuineas plan, and the Debt...