Budgets & Projections
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What Do High Debt Levels Do To Our Economy?
Read morePoliticians and economists have long talked about the negative effects of an accumulating national debt, but cannot always quantify their position...
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What Happened to the Alternative Fiscal Scenario?
Read moreUpdate: CBO has now released its official Alternative Fiscal Scenario estimates (tab 6 of the Excel). They find that debt reaches 165 percent of GDP...
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CBO Releases Long-Term Budget Outlook
Read moreIt's here — CBO has released its updated long-term baseline. Since December, many commentators have attempted to see where we stand since the fiscal...
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CRFB's Breakdown of the Long-Term Outlook
Read moreCBO's Long-Term Budget Outlook is a sizeable 126-page document with tons of facts and figures, and an accompanying spreadsheet with even more data. In...
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Op-Ed: Reason to Hope for Fiscal Sanity
Read moreThe Hill | September 17, 2013 For more than a decade, I have dedicated myself to sounding the alarm about our government’s fiscal mismanagement and...
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SGR Bill a Good Start but More Can Be Done for Less
Read moreThe Congressional Budget Office, on Friday, estimated that the Energy & Commerce Committee’s (E&C) bill to permanently replace the flawed Sustainable...
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Op-Ed: Government Shutdown? A Leap of Trust Can Seal a Budget Deal
Read moreChristian Science Monitor | September 16, 2012 Budget talk in Washington is again dominated by nonnegotiable demands and a potential government...
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Budget Director: We Still Have a Long-Term Debt Problem
Read moreReading the news these days, you might think our debt problem has been solved: the federal deficit has been revised downward and is falling to its...
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It's Official: Budget Projections Have Changed
Read moreLast month after the Bureau of Economic Analysis revised their GDP numbers going back to 1929, we decided to take the intiative and project what the...