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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Comparing 2010 and 2013 Federal Government Spending
Late last week, the Washington Post's David Fahrenthold published a piece claiming that "big government is mostly unchanged" since 2010, when...
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Economists' Survey: Long Term, Not the Short Term, Should Be the Focus
The National Association for Business Economics (NABE) conducted its semi-annual survey recently, surveying 220 economists on questions of fiscal...
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Disability Insurance and the Great Recession
Update: A new note from the Office of the Chief Actuary of the Social Security Administration finds that allowance rates actually fell during the...
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CBO Dissects the Medicare Spending Growth Slowdown
The slowdown in health care spending growth in recent years has been a hotly debated topic, as experts try to figure out the source of the slowdown...
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MY VIEW: Jim McCrery
When Congress returns from recess in early September, they will have to address two major upcoming challenges: pass appropriations for next year...
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The President's Higher Education Proposals
As part of an ongoing series of economic speeches entitled A Better Bargain for the Middle Class, President Obama spoke yesterday at the University of...
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The Long-Term Cost of Delaying Social Security Reform
Last week, we noted that it was the 78th birthday of the Social Security program, but cautioned that reform was needed before we could count on...
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The Tax Break-Down: LIFO Accounting
This is the second post in a new CRFB blog series The Tax Break-Down, which discusses tax breaks under discussion as part of tax reform. Last-in...
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CAP's Proposal to Improve Retirement Accounts
With President Obama set to give a speech in the coming weeks on retirement security, the Center for American Progress (CAP) has released a report...
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MY VIEW: Bill Frenzel August 2013
It's the dog days of August and with Congress in recess, we can do nothing but wait to resolve some of the upcoming fiscal challenges that lie ahead...
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Peterson Foundation Depicts the Long Term...Interactively
Frequent readers of this blog will be familiar with projections of long term debt. But the Peterson Foundation has found an interesting interactive...
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Think Tanks Weigh In Before Budget Fights
Even though Washington slows down in August, several think tanks are staking out positions in advance of this fall's pending fight over the debt limit...