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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How CBO May Score the President's Budget
Last year, when the President's budget used overly optimistic economic assumptions and various magic asterisks, we re-estimated their budget using...
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How the President Met the 2013 Cap
Continuing on in our blog series, we will be discussing discretionary spending proposals in the President's budget. The FY 2013 budget was notable for...
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What Will the Budget Look like in 2022?
In this edition of our continuing analysis of the President's FY 2013 budget, we will now examine what the budget will look like in 2022, the end of...
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Budget Reform Proposals in the President's FY 2013 Budget
This installment of the FY 2013 Budget Series focuses on some of the budget process reform proposals buried deep in the Analytical Perspectives...
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‘Line’ Items: Budget Day Edition
Big Day – Today is the big day in budget world. The White House released its fiscal year 2013 budget request. As you can imagine, CRFB has been busy...
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No Offsets? No Deal
It's no secret that the conference committee tasked with finding solutions for the expiring 2-month fix for the payroll tax cut, unemployment...
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Key Fiscal Metrics in the President's Budget
With President Obama's FY 2013 budget out in the open for review (see our initial reaction and analysis) we will now more closely examine many aspects...
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CRFB's Reaction to the President's Budget
CRFB has just released its press release on the President's budget, including some basic analysis of the fiscal trajectory. The budget includes...
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More Details on the President's Budget
In a post earlier this week detailing what's known about the President's budget, we discussed policies that were likely to appear on Monday. Now, the...
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Bowles-Simpson's Best Endorsement Yet?
Just when you thought you've seen it all, here's Clint Eastwood on CNBC's "Squawkbox" this morning touting the Fiscal Commission plan. Given the large...
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House Passes Modified Line Item Veto
Expedited rescission authority, a cousin of the line-item veto, has been considered countless times by Congress since the line item veto was declared...
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Previewing the President's Budget
With less than a week before the President's budget comes out The Wall Street Journal has reported that it will be similar to the September submission...