Blog
Welcome to our blog – The Bottom Line, where you’ll find up-to-date commentary and analysis on the most important news in the fiscal world. Below is a list of our blog posts.
Every Budget Put the Debt on a Downward Path…and This One Should Too
In additional to reopening the government and suspending the debt ceiling, last night, both the House and Senate agreed to go to Budget Conference...
The Tax Break-Down: Intangible Drilling Costs
This is the eleventh post in our blog series, The Tax Break-Down, which will analyze and review tax breaks under discussion as part of tax reform. Our...
Event Recap: Leon Panetta and Others Urge Action on Fiscal Issues
Yesterday, former Defense Secretary and CRFB board member Leon Panetta headlined a press conference at the National Press Club on the need for our...
Line Items: Ups and Downs Edition
Ending the Shutdown and Cranking Up the Debt Limit – It’s been an up-and-down past couple of weeks. The federal government has been shut down since...
Looks Like We Have a Deal
After a few weeks of government shutdown and a nerve-wracking lead-up to hitting the debt ceiling, the Senate leadership announced today it had come...
Marc Goldwein: Hard Choices Required to Address Looming Debt
The prolonged government shutdown and debt ceiling debate are a clear indication that our government is not functioning as it should. Furloughed...
Deficits are a First-Order Problem
Yesterday, Former Treasury Secretary and director of the National Economic Council Larry Summers argued that “budget deficits are now a second-order...
Bad Ideas Watch: Shutdown/Debt Ceiling Edition
Bipartisan discussions over how to end the partial government shutdown and raise the debt ceiling are coming down to the wire as this week begins...
Boskin Proposes Another Way Out
Today begins week three of the government shutdown, and we are now just days away from when the Treasury will exhaust its borrowing authority and risk...
House Setting Into Motion Farm Bill Conference
Naturally, the country has been consumed by the developments (or lack thereof) in the government shutdown and debt ceiling impasse. But there is some...
Keep Gimmicks Out Of A Deal
As the government shutdown continues into its 11th day, the two parties have just begun having serious negotiations about reopening the government and...
Marc Goldwein: Don’t Believe the Myth That Debt Problem is a Myth
With the recent improvement in medium-term budget projections, some are trying to advance the myth that our debt problems have been solved. But as we...