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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Alan Simpson Appears on the Daily Show
Fiscal Commission co-chair Alan Simpson appeared last night on "The Daily Show" to talk about the fiscal cliff and the national debt. And of course...
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Line Items: December Doldrums Edition
Blue Christmas? – December can be a depressing time for many. Shorter days and the stress of the holidays affect many of us. Unfortunately, the news...
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"Fixing the Debt: Reforming the Tax Code and Federal Health Spending" Recap
Yesterday, the Fix the Debt Campaign had a event with two roundtables bringing together many health policy and tax experts from across the political...
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Fiscal Cliff Watch: Offers Begin to Emerge
UPDATE: Debt numbers in table have been slightly altered since the original posting. With now less than a month before the country would go over the...
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Myth Buster: Other Plans are Much Worse Than the Fiscal Cliff
We've shown that there a plenty of reasons to not go over the fiscal cliff, including that it implements fiscal consolidation in an abrupt and blunt...
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Think Tanks Bring Ideas to the Table
Just as President Obama and the Republican leadership are trading offers, three think tanks--the Heritage Foundation, the Center for American Progress...
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Watch Live: "Fixing the Debt: Reforming the Tax Code and Federal Health Spending"
Tomorrow, the Campaign to Fix the Debt will be hosting a half-day event that will bring together tax, health, and budget experts for a series of...
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MacGuineas and Weinstein on the Fiscal Cliff
CRFB President Maya MacGuineas joined Mark Zandi of Moody's Analytics on "Face the Nation" this Sunday discussing the Fix the Debt campaign and the...
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The Tax Math of the Fiscal Cliff Discussion
In a blog post on the White House's website, National Economic Council Director Gene Sperling and Deputy Director Jason Furman argue that the math of...
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MY VIEW: Laura Tyson November 2012
Former Council of Economic Advisers Chair and CRFB Board Member Laura Tyson writes in The New York Times about the dual challenges of "Go Fast" to...
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Drawing Lessons from the 1990 Federal Budget Deal
Back in the late 1980s and early 1990s, lawmakers faced a serious challenge with large budget deficits. Throughout the 1980s, many measures were put...
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CBO: Federal Government Will Hit Debt Limit in February or March
With all the attention on the fiscal cliff looming only weeks away, the fact that the federal government will hit the debt ceiling in the next few...