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 Paper Outlines Fiscal and Monetary Exit Strategies
The IMF just recently released a new report, Exiting from Crisis Intervention Policies, arguing that as the crisis winds down, it is more important...
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Two Economists Join the Announcement Effect Club
In a blog post today on Voxeu.org, European economists Tim Besley and Andrew Scott joined the Announcement Effect Club, stating that a switch to tight...
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President's Health Care Summit
The President's effort to forge a bipartisan solution to health care reform at today's summit has just started and is televised on C-Span (click here...
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Happy 35th Birthday CBO!!!
According to CBO Director Doug Elmendorf: CBO is celebrating its 35th birthday! The agency was created by the Congressional Budget and Impoundment...
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CBO Scores Second Senate Jobs Bill
Today, Senate Majority leader Harry Reid introduced a second jobs bill, following the first $16 billion jobs bill (-$1.1 billion 11-year deficit...
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Accounting for Fannie and Freddie
An editorial yesterday in the Wall Street Journal called on the Administration to support the reform of the two housing financing enterprises...
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Herszenhorn Discusses Reconciliation For Health Care
Ever since Scott Brown's victory in Massachusetts, there has been a lot of talk about Democrats using budget reconciliation to pass a comprehensive...
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Democrats Named to Deficit Panel
A little less than a week after the President signed an Executive Order establishing a National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, the...
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Wyden and Gregg to the Rescue
Rescuing us from the disaster that is the U.S. tax code while reducing the federal debt will require nothing short of a superhuman feat; Senators Ron...
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The U.S. Needs a Fiscal Turnaround
The United States is not the first nation to face tough fiscal challenges. Other countries have faced similar fiscal challenges – and gotten out of...
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Wyden and Gregg Release Tax Reform Proposal
Earlier today, Senators Judd Gregg (R-NH), and Ron Wyden (D-OR) released what they call A Bipartisan Plan for Tax Fairness. Read the press release...
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Comparison of Health Care Reform Bills
Yesterday, the White House released its version of a health care reform bill to restart the debate on how to reform the country's health care system.