Papers
View our recurring reports, which summarize and analyze the most important regular federal budget releases and reports.
Op-Ed: Can We Afford $100 Billion Jobs Bill?
CNN | June 4, 2010 Last Friday, the House passed and sent to the Senate a jobs bill that was scaled down in an effort to control the cost. The...
Essay: Our Unsustainable Budget Situation
NIHCM Foundation | May 2010 Our Burgeoning Federal Debt There is little doubt that the United States is on an unsustainable budget path. Budget...
Op-Ed: Could the U.S. End Up Like Greece?
CNN | May 20, 2010 Over the past month, we've watched from distant shores as Greece has plunged into a debt crisis. Mounting pressure from global...
Op-Ed: From a Fiscal Standpoint, Alarm About Health Care Reform
Pioneer Press | May 15, 2010 As co-chair of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget (yes, I know it sounds like an oxymoron), I helped organize...
CBO's Analysis of the President's FY2011 Budget
In its Analysis of the President's Budget, CBO estimates that the FY 2011 budget proposals would cause public debt levels to rise to 90 percent of GDP...
Fiscal Turnarounds: International Success Stories
The U.S. is not alone in facing massive budget deficits and an exploding debt, nor is it the first country to face this type of situation. There are...