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.
House Passes Small Business Bill
Today, the House passed HR 5297, the small business bill that had been stalled in Congress for weeks. It is expected that President Obama will sign it...
MARKETWATCH: SEPTEMBER 20 - 24, 2010
The September growth play picked up speed at the end of the week, as markets liked stronger than expected US business investment data from August...
Round Two: What Happened to My Social Security COLA?
It's that time of year again, when people start asking whether Social Security recipients will receive a Cost of Living Adjustment (COLA). And it...
The House GOP “Pledge to America”
Today the Republican caucus of the House of Representatives released an agenda-setting document as a part of its strategy to take control of the House...
A Thousand Cuts...
The Center for American Progress released a paper yesterday titled " A Thousand Cuts." The paper aims to show how deep policymakers would have to cut...
What Would It Look Like If the U.S. Adopted Britain's New Budget?
The remarkable level of austerity proposed in Britain’s new emergency budget made news around the world (see our earlier blog for details) as, in the...
The Fed Widens the Easing Door
Today, the Fed widened the door further toward easing monetary policy (presumably in the form of additional quantitative easing). The Fed's shift...
Center for American Progress Details What Spending Cuts Could Look Like
Attemping to show how deep policymakers would have to cut spending to reduce the deficit to primary balance in 2015, the Center for American Progress...
Putting the Tax Cuts in Perspective
With Congress back in session, the mid-term election right around the corner, and a looming expiration, the debate of the 2001-2003 tax cuts is...
NBER Announces Official End of Recession
Today, the National Bureau of Economic Research announced in a statement that the recession that began in December of 2007 had ended in June of 2009...
‘Line’ Items: Fall Edition
Falling Into Pieces – Fall officially begins this week. A short congressional calendar and the quickly-approaching elections mean that the legislative...
MARKETWATCH: September 13 - 17, 2010
Action this week has been in the stock and currency markets. “Stocks are on a September roll” ( Wall Street Journal), as the US growth play continues...