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.
Third Way on Why Low Interest Rates Won't Last
It may be true currently that although our national debt has been growing rapidly, interest rates are low. This fact has led some leading economic...
Steuerle: Revenue Proposals Not Enough
Urban Institute scholar and CRFB board member Gene Steuerle writes in his blog The Government We Deserve that the current revenue proposals from both...
MY VIEW: David Walker December 2012
Former U.S. Comptroller General David Walker writes in today's Politico that not all of the attention should be on the upcoming fiscal cliff - we also...
Taxpayers for Common Sense Lay Out Their Plan
Yesterday, Taxpayers for Common Sense sent a letter to President Obama, House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH), and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV...
Alan Simpson Appears on the Daily Show
Fiscal Commission co-chair Alan Simpson appeared last night on "The Daily Show" to talk about the fiscal cliff and the national debt. And of course...
Line Items: December Doldrums Edition
Blue Christmas? – December can be a depressing time for many. Shorter days and the stress of the holidays affect many of us. Unfortunately, the news...
"Fixing the Debt: Reforming the Tax Code and Federal Health Spending" Recap
Yesterday, the Fix the Debt Campaign had a event with two roundtables bringing together many health policy and tax experts from across the political...
Fiscal Cliff Watch: Offers Begin to Emerge
UPDATE: Debt numbers in table have been slightly altered since the original posting. With now less than a month before the country would go over the...
Myth Buster: Other Plans are Much Worse Than the Fiscal Cliff
We've shown that there a plenty of reasons to not go over the fiscal cliff, including that it implements fiscal consolidation in an abrupt and blunt...
Think Tanks Bring Ideas to the Table
Just as President Obama and the Republican leadership are trading offers, three think tanks--the Heritage Foundation, the Center for American Progress...
Watch Live: "Fixing the Debt: Reforming the Tax Code and Federal Health Spending"
Tomorrow, the Campaign to Fix the Debt will be hosting a half-day event that will bring together tax, health, and budget experts for a series of...
MacGuineas and Weinstein on the Fiscal Cliff
CRFB President Maya MacGuineas joined Mark Zandi of Moody's Analytics on "Face the Nation" this Sunday discussing the Fix the Debt campaign and the...