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Still Budgeting Through Footnotes in FY 2011
A few months ago, we pointed out that the Administration was cheating in its Mid-Session Review budget baseline. Essentially it was taking policies...
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Tim Geithner Joins the 'Announcement Effect Club'!
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geither has just joined CRFB's ' Announcement Effect Club', a group of prominent economists and leaders who have called for...
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Freeze Leaves Some Cold, Some Toasty
Today, CRFB released our Analysis of the President's FY 2011 Budget . We will be following-up here at The Bottom Line with shorter analyses discussing...
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CRFB in the News
With the release of the President's budget yesterday, CRFB has received a ton of media coverage, including The Washington Post, Financial Times, CNN...
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CRFB Policy Director to Participate In Politico Web Chat at Noon
UPDATE: Web chat is beginning and is now live. Today at noon (9am Pacific), CRFB Policy Director Marc Goldwein will be participating in a live web...
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CRFB Comments on Administration Budget
The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget today applauded President Obama for proposing a specific fiscal goal in his Fiscal 2011 budget plan...
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Is Obama the Spending Terminator?
In a blog post, this weekend, White House Communications Director Dan Pfeiffer outlined some of the terminations, reductions, and savings to be...
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Op-Ed: President's Budget Is a Start, at Least
AOL News | Feb. 1, 2010 The president's budget elevates the issue of fiscal responsibility (good), but fails to achieve it (not good). President Obama...
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President Releases $3.8 Trillion Budget
President Obama released a Fiscal 2011 budget request today that would spend some $3.834 trillion next year and projects a deficit of $1.267 trillion...
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Six More FDIC Bank Closings
On Friday evening, the FDIC reported that it has taken over an additional five banks ( American Marine Bank, First Regional Bank, Community Bank and...