By Maya MacGuineas Last night I attended a curtain raiser dinner for today’s Dealing with America’s Debt Overhang event, hosted by New America...

Maya MacGuineas’ opinion piece in Roll Call, Reducing the Budget Deficit Requires More Than Just Health Care Reform, argues that: 1) while it is too...

Tomorrow, on September 16th, the Peterson-Pew Commission on Budget Reform will host an event -- Beyond PAYGO -- to discuss recent proposals to gain...

This week marks the one year anniversary of the Lehman Brothers collapse, an event that both seriously destabilized and ominously ruptured the U.S...

CQ reports that CBO is likely to score the costs of the Senate Finance Committee health care bill for the second ten year period. This is excellent...

UPDATE: See New American Contract's response to our post. They argue there may be trade-offs between improving the fiscal situation and strengthening...

Is the largest fiscal stimulus package adopted in U.S. history working? Is it worth the high fiscal cost in the future? With these questions in mind...

On Friday evening, the FDIC reported that it has taken over three additional banks ( Venture Bank, Brickwell Community Bank, and Corus Bank) for a...

We think triggers can be helpful in budgeting, by providing a back-up plan for when estimates prove wrong or conditions change, and by helping...

The Council of Economic Advisers has just released their first quarterly report on the economic impact of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act...