Budget Projections

At the Bottom Line we often complain about government officials avoiding hard fiscal choices because of the political difficulty involved. At the...

The Congressional Budget Office issued its Monthly Budget Review yesterday. It estimates that the federal government incurred a deficit of $714...

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...

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...

There has been a great deal of discussion about certain parts of the health care bill and whether or not they constitute budget gimmickry (see here...

CRFB has yet again updated its health care comparison chart -- as well as its interactive shareable graphs -- in light of CBO's latest score of the...

When we have discussed health care reform, in the past, we have charted and graphed the effects of the bills on direct spending (general mandatory...

CRFB has updated its comparisons of the costs of the President's proposed policies -- outlined in the President's FY 2011 Budget -- incorporating new...

On Tuesday, March 9, the New York Times reported about how state and local pension funds are changing their investment strategies to improve their...

On Friday, the Congressional Budget Office released its Preliminary Analysis of the President’s Budget. (Last week we offered a few graphs and a short...

Along with their analysis of the President's Budget, on Friday, CBO updated its Social Security projections. And as it turns out, the surpluses are...

This afternoon CBO released its preliminary analysis of the President’s Budget, projecting a significantly worse fiscal situation than the...