Budgets & Projections

Frequent readers of this blog will be familiar with projections of long term debt. But the Peterson Foundation has found an interesting interactive...

Even though Washington slows down in August, several think tanks are staking out positions in advance of this fall's pending fight over the debt limit...

Today, a piece in the Financial Times shows the unnecessary damage being done by the ongoing sequester -- in this case, sharp cuts to federal support...

A New York Times piece today lays out a possible "mini-bargain" to move past the debt ceiling and expiration of government funding. The piece, "...

In his column in today's Wall Street Journal and an accompanying audio clip, David Wessel takes on the question before Washington: Is the budget...

Nearly two weeks ago, the Bureau of Economic Analysis released its GDP report with a $560 billion upward revision for 2012. As we explained at the...

Update: Post-sequester figures have been revised according to the most recent estimates. Another month has gone by, and while on paper the budget...

As of Wednesday's GDP report, GDP for fiscal year 2012 was revised upward by roughly $560 billion to a total of $16.2 trillion. This almost Houdini...

Early this month, the Obama Administration announced that it would delay enforcement of the employer mandate penalty in the Affordable Care Act for...

Today, the Center for American Progress (CAP) hosted a panel discussion featuring Center on Budget and Policy Priorities Senior Fellow Jared Bernstein...

Today, the Congressional Budget Office released a report detailing the projected economic effects of repealing the sequester starting August 1. The...