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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The Deficit Pledge
"I will not sign a plan that adds one dime to our deficits – either now or in the future. Period.” That is a clear cut pledge, and a very good one...
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Some Highlights from Obama's Health Care Speech
A few minutes ago, President Obama addressed a joint session of Congress to discuss health care reform. Although he talked about a wide array of...
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Those 'Health Care Gimmicks' Are Still Out There
Today, the Peter G. Peterson Foundation released a Lewin Group analysis of the current House health care reform bill (America’s Affordable Health...
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Congressional Oversight Panel Reports on Bailout of Auto Industry
This morning, the Congressional Oversight panel released a report on the use of TARP funds to bailout the auto industry, stating that the federal...
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What We'd Like to Hear in the President's Speech Tonight
1. Health reform is first and foremost about controlling costs – There are three major problems people would like to solve through health reform: cost...
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Ideas for Tax Reform
Recently, Tax Analysts released Toward Tax Reform: Recommendations for President Obama's Task Force , a collection of essays by 32 prominent tax...
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Another $95 Billion of Budgeting Through Footnotes
Last week, we wrote about $85 billion worth of stimulus tax cuts which the Obama administration assumed as permanant in their baseline so that they...
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Welcome to The Bottom Line!
CRFB.org has just completed a major web redesign! We encourage you to explore the entire site, along with a whole new USBudgetWatch.org and Stimulus...
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CBO Projects Social Security Deficits in 2010
CBO recently published new projections for the revenues and outlays for Social Security (kudos to Andrew Biggs for pointing this out). The updated...
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Budgeting through Footnotes
This morning, Lori Montgomery of the Washington Post reported on the decision of the Obama administration to incorporate $85 billion in tax breaks...
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Constructing a "Current Policy" Baseline
Today, US Budget Watch released The Cost of “Current Policy”. In this analysis, we show that, while deeply troublesome, CBO’s $7.1 trillion ten-year...
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The Ups and Downs of Buttressing the Economy
Yesterday, the Wall Street Journal posted an article discussing the FDIC’s soon-to-be urgent need to draw money from its $500 billion Treasury line of...