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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.
MY VIEW: Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson September 2013
We are now another week closer to a possible government showdown, and still no viable solution has emerged. But while a deal may have not come...
As the Fed Meets, CRFB Quantifies Interest Rate Risk Facing the Budget
Beginning tomorrow, the Federal Open Market Committee, the Fed's interest rate setting and deliberative body that meets eight times a year -- will...
TOMORROW: Former U.S. Comptroller Dave Walker to Hold Final Comeback America Initiative Event
Tomorrow, former U.S. Comptroller General and CRFB Board Member Dave Walker will hold an event at the National Press Club to mark the ending the...
Event Recap: National Journal Fiscal Fallout Summit
Yesterday, National Journal hosted " Fiscal Fallout: What is 'Responsible' in Today's Fiscal Reality," a policy summit convening experts to discuss...
Tax Break-Down Series Gathering Attention
Our new series, " The Tax-Break Down," continues to look into the costs associated with specific tax breaks, the arguments for and against them, and...
Budget Director: We Still Have a Long-Term Debt Problem
Reading the news these days, you might think our debt problem has been solved: the federal deficit has been revised downward and is falling to its...
Moment of Truth Project Releases Policy Paper on Medicare Delivery and Payment System Reforms
The current volume-based reimbursement that pervades America’s health care system encourages more, not better, care and is driving up spending at an...
Comparing Recent Continuing Resolution Proposals
Today, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its score of H. J. Res. 59, the continuing resolution (CR) recently proposed by several House...
The Tax Break-Down: Cafeteria Plans and Flexible Spending Accounts
This is the seventh post in a new CRFB blog series, The Tax Break-Down, which will analyze and review tax breaks under discussion as part of tax...
It's Official: Budget Projections Have Changed
Last month after the Bureau of Economic Analysis revised their GDP numbers going back to 1929, we decided to take the intiative and project what the...
Bipartisan Proposal for Medicare and Medicaid Fraud Prevention Introduced
In an effort to help address the unsustainable growth of our health care programs, a few legislators are reaching across the aisle in an effort to...
Syria and the Sequester
Although the possibility of a US military strike on Syria is now in question, the possibility has also led to public statements regarding the...