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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Only One Week Left Until the Presidential Debates
The first presidential debate is now only one week away on October 3 at the University of Denver. With much of the first debate focusing on the...
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Geithner Calls for a "Go Smart" Approach
In an interview with Charlie Rose at the Clinton Global Initiative's annual meeting, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner endorsed a "Go Smart"...
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Armed Services Committee Senators Call For a Deal
Yesterday, a group of six senators from both parties signed a letter to Senator Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell...
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More on Capital Gains and Tax Reform
Last week, we featured a piece by CRFB Senior Policy Director Marc Goldwein discussing one option to reduce tax rates while maintaining...
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FY 2013 Budget is Settled...For Now
Late last week, the Senate passed a continuing resolution (CR) by a 62-30 vote to keep the government funded for the next six months with only a week...
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149 Mayors Call for a Debt Deal
The United States Conference of Mayors has written a letter signed by 149 mayors across the country, a bipartisan collection including the likes of...
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Erskine Bowles and Al Simpson: Debt Solution Must Be Bipartisan
In today's USA Today, Fix the Debt co-founders and Simpson-Bowles co-chairs Erskine Bowles and Al Simpson write that each party can't just have its...
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Where is the Estate Tax Heading?
POLITICO reported earlier in the week that the estate tax debate is re-emerging as the expiration of the 2001/2003/2010 tax cuts looms. The estate tax...
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Capital Gains and Tax Reform
Yesterday, the House Ways and Means Committee and the Senate Finance Committee held a joint hearing on tax reform and the tax treatment of capital...
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McCain Says Leave Everything on the Table
On Bloomberg Government's "Capitol Gains" show, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) endorsed at least the Simpson-Bowles outline as the starting point for...
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Fiscal Fact Checker: Simpson-Bowles Raises Revenue
Today on Bloomberg, Edward Lazear -- the former chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors under former President George W. Bush -- talked about the...
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NPR Breaks Down the Fiscal Cliff
Today, NPR's Planet Money featured a helpful "three and a half graphic" breakdown of the fiscal cliff, relying on CRFB's figures. The piece breaks...