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.
Is Chained CPI a 6 Percent Benefit Cut or a 25 Percent Benefit Increase?
With the President proposing switching to the chained CPI to measure inflation, the attack dogs are out. We've written on the merits of moving to the...
Three Voices in Support of the Chained CPI
Given the chained CPI is primary a technical adjustment to more accurately measure inflation, support for the change can be found among experts across...
How the President's Budget Deals With Temporary Policies
A common affliction of the federal government in recent years has been the many temporary extensions of certain spending or tax benefits. Because...
Erskine Bowles to Speak at the Associated Press at 12:30 PM Today
Fiscal Commission co-chair Erskine Bowles will be addressing the Associated Press at their annual meeting in Orlando today. The event is co-hosted by...
MY VIEW: Maya MacGuineas April 15 2013
It's Tax Day, meaning that those who procrastinated spent their weekends trying to work through our overly-complex tax code. The federal code contains...
GAO's Long-Term Budget Outlook
Last week, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) released its long-term fiscal outlook, presenting both long-term projections and estimates of...
The President's Proposed Chained CPI Protections
Much of the early debate surrounding President Obama’s FY 2014 budget concerns his inclusion of the chained Consumer Price Index (C-CPI), a more...
The House, Senate, and President's Budgets: A Comparison
As we mentioned on Wednesday, budget season can often be as confusing as it is clarifying. While it would seem that both chambers and the President...
CRFB Breaks Down the President's Budget
Yesterday, we took our first look at the President's FY 2014 Budget, which put forward the final White House deficit reduction offer to Speaker...
The President's Budget, In One Table
Update: The table and text have been updated to include the baselines in the House and Senate budget resolutions. A common source of confusion when...
An Overview of the President's Budget
While we will have detailed analysis of various parts of the President's budget throughout the week and into next week, it is important to first show...
The Budget is Here
President Obama has just released his FY 2014 budget proposal, putting forward his last offer in the negotiations leading up to the fiscal cliff, in...