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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CRFB Launches A Featured Charts Page!
CRFB would like to introduce our " Featured Charts" page where we will highlight important fiscal, economic, health care, and entitlement projection...
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Revenues and Outlays under the President's Budget
CRFB has talked a lot about deficit and debt projections over the coming decade, and beyond. CBO's analysis of the President's FY 2011 budget shows us...
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Fed Ends Purchases of GSE Mortgage-Backed Securities
Yesterday, the Federal Reserve ended its purchases of mortgage-backed securities (MBS) from the government-sponsored enterprises (GSE), including...
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The Onion Takes the Deficit Challenge
The Onion has decided to take the deficit challenge. Their idea might just be the most original one yet: Eliminate the U.S. Senate. "Established in...
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Interest Rates and the Fiscal Outlook
A great debate is breaking out over concerns for our growing debt, and it is centered around interest rates on Treasury securities. A fear held by...
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‘Line’ Items: Hoops, Blossoms and Canaries
Health Care Makes it Through the Final Hoops – Congress completed work last week on the reconciliation package, which included fixes to the health...
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Weekend Editorial Roundup
Here are the highlights from this weekend’s editorials on fiscal and budget policy: The New York Times believed that the suits made by various state...
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CBO/JCT Reports Roundup
A number of very interesting and relevant government reports came out this week. Check them out: CBO: Costs and Policy Options for Federal Student...
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Sovereign Risk Jitters
For budget and market watchers, the month of March has been a little scary. It is not easy to come out of the deepest recession and financial crisis...
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Time to Get Started: Final Three Appointees to the Fiscal Commission and Executive Director Named
Today Speaker Nancy Pelosi appointed the final three members to National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform: Rep. John Spratt (D-S.C.)...
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Ping Pong on Reconciliation: Senate Votes to Pass Reconciliation Measure, House Must Now Vote Again
The Senate passed the reconciliation bill on health care bill reform (that includes student loan provisions) this afternoon by a vote of 56 to 43...
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The Costs of Current Policies
This morning, we released our review of CBO's Analysis of the President's Budget, which discusses the budget implications of the President's FY 2011...