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.
Council on Foreign Relations Primes Readers on the Fiscal Cliff
The Council on Foreign Relations has joined in on those warning of the dangers of the fiscal cliff due to hit early January and unsustainable rising...
The 47th Anniversary of Medicare and Our Growing Aging Problem
Today is the 47th anniversary of the Medicare program, reminding us of the great challenge we face from our growing entitlement spending. If you've...
Re-visiting the President's Budget: OMB's Mid-Session Review
The OMB has released its Mid-Session Review (MSR), essentially a re-estimate of the President's budget taking into new legislative, economic, and...
A Deal on Appropriations Is Near
According to POLITICO's Jake Sherman and John Bresnahan, lawmakers are nearing a deal that would fund the government for the first six months of FY...
CRFB Reiterates Its Call to Debate the Debt
In light of the Commission on Presidential Debates announcing the debate format for this year's presidential cycle, CRFB once again called for a...
The Concord Coalition Provides Fiscal Lessons From Europe
The Concord Coalition has just unveiled a new paper, authored by Edmund Andrews, Joe Minarik, and Diane Lim Rodgers, called " Not Just Their Problem...
Lieberman and Collins Stand Up for Fiscal Responsibility
Yesterday the Senate voted on two highly polarized tax plans, with a Democratic version passing 51-48 while the Republican supported bill failing to...
Online Sales Tax Debate Heats Up
Last week, our "Spotlight on the States" blog post highlighted structural challenges for the states, one of them being an eroding sales tax base. The...
Comparing the Unpaid-For Tax Cut Extensions
The Senate is set to vote in the coming days on dueling one-year extensions of the 2001/2003/2010 tax cuts and Alternative Minimum Tax patch, with...
Updated Estimates of the Affordable Care Act
Today, the Congressional Budget Office released two reports revising estimates for the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The first report provides updated...
It's Not Free Money
Paul Krugman and other advocates of more federal stimulus spending cite today’s extremely low real interest rates, near zero or negative, as reason to...
AARP Event Discusses Population Aging Across the Globe
The American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) hosted an event entitled "Work, Retirement Age, and Fiscal Sustainability in an Aging World." Two...