Announcement Effect Club

At yesterday's Peter G. Peterson Foundation Fiscal Summit, the Announcement Effect Club saw its membership bump up, yet again. During the second panel...

From the Chairman's Mark of the FY2011 Senate Budget Resolution (emphasis added): Certainly, the need to return to fiscal discipline and the costs of...

Along with the daffodils, the onset of spring has seen the blossoming of the “announcement effect” in the public discourse. Three international...

EPI's Lawrence Mishel joined the Announcement Effect Club with an article co-written with David Walker (already a member) in Politico last week. In...

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...

During yesterday's Avoiding a Government Debt Crisis event, hosted by the Peterson-Pew Commission on Budget Reform, speakers Thomas Hoenig, Richard...

Fearless economists braved the Washington snow this week to walk through the doors of the Announcement Effect Club via their testimony before the...

In a recent economic study, André Meier, Giancarlo Corsetti, and Gernot Müller found that announcing significant fiscal retrenchment (ie deficit...

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geither has just joined CRFB's ' Announcement Effect Club', a group of prominent economists and leaders who have called for...

Roll out the red carpet and velvet rope, CRFB’s new list of prominent economists, organizations, and opinion leaders that have joined us in suggesting...

Since CRFB called for a Fiscal Recovery Plan in July, a growing number of prominent economists, organizations, and opinion leaders have joined us in...