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Yesterday, the tax subgroup of the President's Economic Recovery Advisory Board (PERAB) met to discuss ideas for simplifying the tax code as part of...

Today, the Center for American Progress and the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities held a forum, “ Progressives and the National Debt...

Today marks the end of fiscal year 2009 (FY 2009), and to celebrate the occasion, the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget has put together a...

CRFB co-chair and former congressman Bill Frenzel answered questions on the U.S. budget deficit in a web chat today hosted by The Brookings...

It would be easy to dismiss the recent G-20 Summit in Pittsburgh as just more political babble, more empty business as usual just among more countries...

As the Associated Press recently reported, Social Security has come under considerable strain as a result of the economic crisis. Payroll tax revenues...

Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget co-chair Bill Frenzel is speaking about the budget deficit at The Brookings Institution
 tomorrow. Frenzel...

Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget co-chair Bill Frenzel will host an online chat conversation, 
 tomorrow, run by the Brookings Institution...

Today, US Budget Watch released a new paper, Comparing Health Care Plans: A Guide to Health Care Reform Proposals, highlighting the ten-year costs and...

Fears over any near-term U.S. inflationary pressures may have eased for the moment. Moody’s recently reassured investors that it didn’t see any...

On Friday evening, the FDIC reported that it has taken over an additional bank ( Georgian Bank) for a cost to the FDIC of around $892 million. This...

This has been a big week in the Senate Finance Committee regarding work on the health care reform bill. The Committee endued many all-day sessions...