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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.
Moment of Truth Project Highlights Reforms to Health Care Cost-Sharing and Federal Retirement
With the deadline for the Super Committee to come to an agreement nearly here, the Moment of Truth Project, a project of CRFB, has released two new...
MY View: Maya MacGuineas November 2011
CRFB president Maya MacGuineas just wrote an essay featured in the Ripon Forum. She writes that the debate over whether the "debt crisis" or the "jobs...
Roll Call Highlights CRFB's Commitment to a Bipartisan Solution
It's clear that any solution to control our rising debt will have to be bipartisan, not only to enact savings put to see them through and ensure they...
My View: Al Simpson and Erskine Bowles
Today in the Washington Post, Fiscal Commission Co-Chairs and CRFB Board Members Al Simpson and Erskine Bowles wrote an op-ed titled, "The Super...
Lawmakers Reach Across the Aisle, and Houses, to Support Go Big
A group of legislators today staged a rare bipartisan, bicameral show of strength to support the Super Committee and encourage it to “ Go Big.” At a...
Mark Zandi Joins Announcement Effect Club
Yesterday, Moody's Analytics Chief Economist Mark Zandi penned an article in Politico about the various possible outcomes of the looming Super...
A Final Bipartisan, Bicameral Push to Go Big
Today at 10:30 am ET, Republican and Democratic lawmakers from both the House and the Senate will be holding a press conference pushing Go Big in a...
Let's Add on Instead of Claw-Back
You might think we're about to talk about Social Security reform or how to reform the Sustainable Growth Rate. But what we're actually talking about...
‘Line’ Items: Go (Big) Time Edition
Time is Short and We Need to Go Long – The clock is ticking on the Super Committee as its November 23 deadline is now just a week and a half away. It...
Again on the Facts of the Chained CPI
It's amazing how sequences in Washington can repeat themselves. Back in June, when switching to the chained CPI was talked about as an option in the...
Revisiting the Feldstein-Feenberg-MacGuineas Cap
Both parties are studying cuts in tax expenditures (TEs) as a means to reduce the federal deficit. Super Committee Republicans have offered a proposal...
Democrats and Republicans Making Efforts Toward a Deal
This week has seen the emergence of another set of broad outlines from the Democrats and Republicans on the Super Committee, in a process that is...