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.
GAO: The Debt Limit Fight Cost the Treasury $1.3 Billion
With the debt ceiling projected to come back in play sometime in December or January, it is helpful to be reminded of the cost of the last debt...
The IMF Looks at International Fiscal Rules
A new working paper by four authors at the International Monetary Fund takes a look at fiscal rules around the world. The Peterson-Pew Commission on...
Support for the Campaign to Fix the Debt
With the roll out of the Campaign to Fix the Debt on Tuesday, there has been plenty of statements of support, as our newest release shows. Some of...
Bernanke Once Again Warns Congress on the Fiscal Cliff
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke addressed Senate Finance Committee on Tuesday and the House Finance Committee yesterday with more warnings about...
Children and the Federal Budget
The Urban Institute held an event today (video here) on children and the federal budget, which involved CRFB Senior Policy Director Marc Goldwein and...
Fix the Debt Event Recap
Yesterday, the Campaign to Fix the Debt officially launched with a press conference at that National Press Club. The Campaign is intended to drum up...
Appropriations Update: The Parallel Track of the Process
Since our last Appropriations Update last month, there has not been much action on appropriations bills. On the House side, the full House has passed...
Spotlight on the States: Structural Challenges
The State Budget Crisis Task Force -- a group of budget experts including the likes of former CBO and OMB director Alice Rivlin, former Federal...
The Launch of the Campaign to Fix the Debt
Update: C-SPAN has uploaded a video of the event. You can view it here. Today, CRFB is helping to launch the Campaign to Fix the Debt at the National...
Options for Reforming Disability Insurance
We have said before that the Disability Insurance (DI) portion of Social Security is too often overlooked, even though it has a more immediate funding...
CRFB Dives Deeper Into the Fiscal Cliff
After the report we released in March, the topic of the fiscal cliff has risen in prominence as CBO and others have attempted to estimate the size of...
Judd Gregg: Five keys to a better budget
A line-by-line budget submission simply allows Congress to distract everyone, including itself, into debates over high visibility-but-small return...