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.

Dec 1, 2009

Budgets & Projections

Economics

CBO Report Discusses ARRA Effect on Jobs, GDP Growth

The Congressional Budget Office has come out with a report estimating the impact of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act on employment and...

Nov 30, 2009

Taxes

Other Spending

Considering a War Tax

Update: An editorial in today's Washington Post discusses the possibility o f increasing the gasoline tax to help pay for the troop increase. The...

Nov 30, 2009

Economics

Budget Process

Weekend Editorial Roundup

Here are the highlights from this weekend’s editorials on fiscal and budget policy: The Wall Street Journal calls the pharmaceutical industry foolish...

Nov 30, 2009

Health Care

How to Reduce National Health Spending

The New England Journal of Medicine, last week, had an article by four RAND researchers on Controlling U.S. Health Care Spending. Using Massachusetts...

Nov 25, 2009

Budgets & Projections

FDIC Deposit Fund Turns Negative

Yesterday, the FDIC reported that the deposit insurance fund fell below zero for the first time since the third quarter of 1992 (during the savings...

Nov 24, 2009

Budget Process

Federal Officials Pressure ‘Pay Czar’ to Ease Pay Restrictions at AIG

Worry about the government’s investment in AIG has prompted some federal officials to call for easing the restrictions on pay at AIG for 2010, the...

Nov 23, 2009

Budgets & Projections

Health Care

Interactive and Sharable Graphs Comparing the Health Care Bills

UPDATE: CHARTS AUTOMATICALLY UPDATE AS NEWER LEGISLATION IS PUT FORWARD. CURRENTLY, THEY REFLECT THE MANAGER'S AMENDMENT TO THE SENATE BILL. Today, US...

Nov 23, 2009

Deficit and Debt Make Headlines

Public concern over the United States’ ballooning deficit and debt seems to be growing. Both the cover of this week’s Economist and the lead story on...