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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IMF Says our Economies are Looking Better, but the Outlook is still Fragile
According to the IMF, we are entering a new phase of the economic and financial crisis: the world has averted a depression, a recovery is taking hold...
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The All-Important Deficit Targets
Japan is considering legislation to impose deficit-targets, according to an article in The Wall Street Journal. With their debt nearing 200% of GDP...
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Dealing With The Debt
In today's Financial Times, Roger Altman asked " whether the credit standing and currency stability of the world's biggest borrower, the US, will be...
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Taxes, Taxes, Taxes
With the April 15 deadline having just passed, it seems that taxes are on everyone's mind. The Washington Post ran an editorial and an op-ed by Robert...
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‘Line’ Items: Offsets and Coming to a Resolution on the Budget
Congress Extends Unemployment Benefits, Along With the Deficit – Last week Congress extended expanded unemployment benefits, COBRA subsidies, the...
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Weekend Editorial Roundup
Here are the highlights from this weekend’s editorials on fiscal and budget policy: Taking off on Ben Bernanke's testimony before Congress last week...
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A Big VAT of Opposition in Congress
Yesterday the Senate voted overwhelmingly, 85-13, to approve a non-binding “sense of the Senate” resolution sponsored by Senator John McCain (R-AZ)...
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CBO/JCT Reports Roundup
A number of very interesting and relevant government reports came out the week of April 12, 2009.
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Market Watch Update: April 12-16
U.S. Treasury markets were relatively quiet most of this week, although some Friday morning news had translated into market gains, as of early...
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"Deficit Spending: Trouble on the Horizon?
Congress this week demonstrated once again that members aren’t yet willing to embrace the new era of fiscal responsibility that was supposed to start...
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The Need for Fundamental Tax Reform
In our “Countdown to tax day” we have so far covered the pros and cons of a VAT, the limitations of only taxing income over $250,000, extending...
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"Public Square" Adds to the Fiscal Conversation
OurFiscalFuture.org has put together a blog carnival on fiscal policy called "Public Square." It brings together numerous experts on fiscal policy to...