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In his column in today's Wall Street Journal and an accompanying audio clip, David Wessel takes on the question before Washington: Is the budget...

It's August 14 and that means it is Social Security's birthday! The program has been around for 78 years, providing retirement security to the elderly...

Yesterday, we noted the revisions that CBO has made to its historical budget data going back to 1973, in light of the Bureau of Economic Analysis's...

Over at Calculated Risk, Bill McBride has created an animated chart showing America's age distribution evolve, as far back as 1900 to the current day...

Nearly two weeks ago, the Bureau of Economic Analysis released its GDP report with a $560 billion upward revision for 2012. As we explained at the...

Before leaving for August recess, Senators Jack Reed (D-RI) and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) introduced S. 1476, which would end the ability of...

This weekend in The New York Times, former Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors Glenn Hubbard and the Hudson Institute's Tim Kane challenged...

As the Senate Finance Committee looks to take up tax reform, one of the higher ranking members on the Committee who will likely shape the process is...

While everyone is focused on tax reform developments these days, we cannot forget about the need for entitlement reform. In an attempt to devise a...

In yesterday's Washington Post, Robert Samuelson explores the unsolved "health spending mystery," whether the recent slowdown in health care spending...

A recent report from Scott Lilly at CAP makes the case that policymakers have only two real choices to respond to the future growth in debt levels...

As Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-MT) and House Ways & Means Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) continue their cross-country tax reform...