Papers
View our recurring reports, which summarize and analyze the most important regular federal budget releases and reports.
Op-Ed: Proposing the Unprecedented to Avoid Default
New York Times | January 14, 2013 The elbow room the government has given itself on the debt ceiling is quickly approaching, and there are a numbers...
Op-Ed: Steps to Fiscal Responsiblity
The Hill | December 14, 2012 While avoiding the “fiscal cliff” is essential to near-term recovery and job growth, it is just the first step to...
Op-Ed: A Real Debt Goal: 60 Percent by 2030
Politico | December 13, 2012 The fiscal cliff obsession in Washington is missing the whole point of fiscal reform: actually solving our national debt...
Op-Ed: Fiscal Cliff Deal: What We Need
Politico | December 6, 2012 When is a fiscal deal different from a Grand Bargain? When we talk about the solutions to two important and related...
Op-Ed: The "Go Fast" and "Go Big" Fiscal Challenges
New York Times | November 30, 2012 Washington faces two urgent fiscal challenges in the next few months. Before the end of the year, the lame duck...
Op-Ed: Inside America's Tax Battle
Project Syndicate | November 26, 2012 America’s recent presidential election answered the question of whether an increase in revenues will be part of...
Op-Ed: Five Myths About the ‘Fiscal Cliff’
Washington Post | November 16, 2012 At the end of the year, the country faces an abrupt series of broad tax increases and blunt cuts to most federal...
Op-Ed: Going Off the Fiscal Cliff Is Good Policy—If You Like Unemployment
U.S. News and World Report | November 16, 2012 Don't even think about it! Falling off the fiscal cliff would be an economic disaster for the United...