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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Feldstein on Tax Expenditures
Martin Feldstein has an interesting op-ed in today's Washington Post on tax expenditures. Tax expenditures -- the list of special tax credits...
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'Line' Items: After the Turkey Edition
Washington Still Has a Full Plate -- Congress returns this week from its Thanksgiving break as fiscal issues will jolt policymakers from their turkey...
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What CRFB Is Thankful For...
As Thanksgiving approaches, we at CRFB wanted to take a moment to reflect on what we are thankful for. We are most thankful for the Simpson-Bowles...
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10 Themes Emerging from the New Debt Reduction Plans
We at CRFB have been calling for people to Get Specific on ways to deal with our long-term fiscal crisis for quite some time. Well, since that has...
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‘Line’ Items: Talking Turkey Edition
Talking Turkey – Congress takes a break this week for Thanksgiving. Lawmakers can be thankful for the brief respite, but the time is quickly coming...
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The Economist Joins the Announcement Effect Club
The Economist joined the Announcement Effect Club last week in an article calling for leadership on the deficit. Following many other plans put out...
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Chairman Bernanke once again: the importance of putting US fiscal policy on a sustainable path
Of particular interest for us, Fed Chairman Bernanke noted the following in his speech today on “Rebalancing the Global Economy” at the European...
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What's Up Doc Fix?
The Senate late Thursday passed another short-term “doc fix” that spares physicians from a 23 percent Medicare payment reduction through the...
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MarketWatch November 15 - 19, 2010
Good news on the domestic front breathed some life into the Dow this week. The new (and, it appears, improved) General Motors came to market to shed...
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On Ireland
Ireland, under attack by financial markets for its economic, financial and fiscal problems, may be getting assistance from the international community...
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Ryan-Rivlin Health Care Plan Unveiled
Many of the recent debt reduction plans—including, the fiscal commission's Co-Chairs' recent proposal, the Galston-MacGuineas plan, and the Debt...
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Jan's Plan
For about a week now, we've been telling critics of the Co-Chairs' Plan to throw ideas, not stones. So, good for Jan Schakowsky. Rep. Schakowsky (D-IL...