Budgets & Projections
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Op-Ed: A Fiscal Deal or a Fiscal Crisis?
Read morePolitico | April 1, 2013 Now that Congress and the president have agreed to fund the government for the rest of this fiscal year — removing the threat...
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The Uncertainty of Long-Term Projections
Read moreThe Economic Policy Institute's Ethan Pollack has a blog post questioning the accuracy and ultimate usefulness of long-term (75-year) budget...
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Op-Ed: Short-Term Congressional Budget Fixes Only Prevent Total Disaster
Read moreForbes | March 28, 2013 In a pleasantly surprising move, the normally moribund Congress passed a Continuing Resolution (CR) to fund the government for...
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Alice Rivlin To Receive 2013 Robert M. Ball Award
Read moreCRFB board member and former CBO and OMB director Alice Rivlin is somewhat of a legend in the budget world, with a long line of work spanning from...
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An Interesting Analysis of Interest Rates
Read moreThe Congressional Budget Office has been busy on its blog lately, posting both snapshots of federal programs and also publishing responses to...
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Notable Amendments to the Senate-Passed Budget
Read moreAs the Senate worked on its FY 2014 budget resolution, which passed by a 50-49 vote late last week, hundreds of amendments were filed in a process...
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Comparing the Budgets on Spending, Revenue, Deficits, and Debt
Read moreUpdate: This blog has been updated since its original posting to incorporate the House Democratic, Republican Study Commitee, and Senator Rand Paul (R...
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MY VIEW: George Voinovich
Read moreIn today's Cincinnati Enquirer, CRFB board member and former Senator George Voinovich (R-OH) calls on Ohio's congressional members to get serious...
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Budgets Agree on One Thing: Putting Debt on a Downward Path
Read moreAlthough the budget resolutions out now take a variety of paths to deficit reduction, we've noticed something that all have in common: they all...
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Fill in the Blanks: The Unspecified Parts of the Budget Resolutions
Read moreContinuing in our analysis of the FY 2014 budget resolutions, we will be discussing the things in the budgets that the authors didn't tell you. There...
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The Government Funding Bill: Winners and Losers
Read moreThe field has been narrowed from 68 to 64 teams, and the NCAA Tournament is ready to kick off in full this afternoon. But the Big Dance isn't the only...
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CBO: Approaches for Scaling Back DoD's Budget Plans
Read moreIt is a well-known fact that the U.S. spends a sizeable amount on defense, more than the next 15 countries combined, including China and Russia. But...