Budgets & Projections
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Op-Ed: The Country Must Act to Address the Debt
Read moreUS News & World Report | February 20, 2012 My old pal Erskine Bowles and I were deeply disappointed by the failure to reach agreement on a long-term...
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Simpson and Bowles Release $2.4 Trillion Deficit Reduction Framework
Read moreToday, former Fiscal Commission co-chairs and Moment of Truth Project co-founders Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson have released a new framework...
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Op-Ed: Obama, We Need Honest Dialogue on Debt
Read moreCNN | February 16, 2013 This week the president faced the American people to talk about, among other things, the budget. He said the right things...
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Op-Ed: Memo to Congress, White House: Get Serious on Debt
Read morePolitico | February 15, 2013 The continual fiscal brinkmanship of the past two years — in which policymakers go from crisis to crisis, avoiding...
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Third Way Calls for $1.9 Trillion of Deficit Reduction
Read moreToday, Third Way has released their analysis of the February CBO Economic and Budget Update, reaching a similar conclusion to our report on the new...
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The New Target: At Least $2.4 Trillion of Additional Deficit Reduction
Read morePresident Obama was recently quoted in the Washington Post as saying that an additional $1.5 trillion of deficit reduction would hit the $4 trillion...
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The CRFB Realistic Projections
Read moreAnalyses of the CBO budget baseline generally focus on the current law baseline, the one that CBO presents in most detail. In the past, we constructed...
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The Fiscal Speed Bumps Ahead: After the Debt Ceiling
Read moreLast month, we highlighted the “fiscal speed bumps” resulting from the fiscal cliff deal. With the signing of the bill which temporarily waived the...
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What's Changed Since August?
Read moreIn CBO’s latest Budget and Economic Outlook, much has changed since their August baseline. As we explain in our report on the February baseline, the...
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The Economic Benefits of Deficit Reduction
Read moreOn the same day they released their February Baseline projection, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released a companion report on Macroeconomic...
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The Economic Outlook in CBO's New Budget Baseline
Read moreCBO's new budget baseline released yesterday relies on its own economic projections over the next decade. After comparing their economic projections...