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.
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McKenzie Plan Offers Trust Fund Solutions to Social Security’s Finances
A recent Dallas Morning News op-ed by Pulitzer-winning journalist William McKenzie called on lawmakers to reduce federal deficits to 3% of Gross...
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Senators Cassidy and Durbin Urge Bipartisan Process to Save Social Security
Senators Bill Cassidy (R-LA) and Dick Durbin (D-IL) published an op-ed in The Washington Examiner today urging Congress to consider a new, bipartisan...
Social Security Retirees Receive Far More Than They Paid In
With Social Security only 6 years from insolvency, one impediment to the enactment of thoughtful solutions is the myth that Social Security benefits...
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Paying the Cost of GLP-1s
GLP-1s, or the glucagon-like peptide-1 class of drugs, have attracted widespread public attention for their significant weight-loss results and...
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New Paper Looks at Changing Foreign Demand for U.S. Debt
In a working paper, The United States and Its Creditors: Assessing Foreign Demand for U.S. Assets, from the Brookings Institution’s Hutchins Center on...
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New Polling Reveals Bipartisan Support for Social Security Reform
There is broad, bipartisan support for balanced reforms that restore Social Security to solvency, according to the latest set of survey results from...
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Three Reasons to Worry About Rising Treasuries
Interest rates on U.S. Treasury bonds recently rose to levels not seen in decades. A recent 30-year Treasury auction ended with yields at over 5.2% –...
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CBO Analysis Suggests $1 Trillion in Medicare Advantage Overpayments
A recent Congressional Budget Office (CBO) analysis projects that the federal government will pay between 5% and 10% more for Medicare Advantage (MA)...
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Marc Goldwein: The best way toward a Social Security fix? This one is tried and true.
A Washington Post op-ed by Marc Goldwein of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget makes the case for assigning a bipartisan commission or...
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Maya MacGuineas Discusses $40T Debt, Affordability on Bloomberg TV
Committee president Maya MacGuineas recently appeared on Bloomberg TV's "Balance of Power" with hosts Joe Mathieu and Kailey Leinz to discuss a wide...
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Treasury Auction Yield Hits Highest in 25 Years
A $25 billion 30-year Treasury auction this week ended with yields at 5.216% – the highest since 2001. The auction is the latest sign of investors’...
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Higher Ed Tax Breaks Could Help Fill Pell Shortfall
The Pell Grants program is out of reserves and faces a $100 to $185 billion shortfall over the next decade. As lawmakers work to limit the cost of the...