Budgets & Projections

CRFB has just released its press release on the President's budget, including some basic analysis of the fiscal trajectory. The budget includes...

With President Obama's FY 2013 budget out in the open for review (see our initial reaction and analysis) we will now more closely examine many aspects...

Just when you thought you've seen it all, here's Clint Eastwood on CNBC's "Squawkbox" this morning touting the Fiscal Commission plan. Given the large...

In a post earlier this week detailing what's known about the President's budget, we discussed policies that were likely to appear on Monday. Now, the...

With less than a week before the President's budget comes out The Wall Street Journal has reported that it will be similar to the September submission...

The McKinsey Global Institute recently released a report assessing the efforts of the world’s ten largest mature economies (United States, Japan...

Supporters of enacting a comprehensive deficit reduction plan got a boost yesterday from Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke. At a hearing with the...

We noted earlier this week that CBO's current law economic assumptions in the near-term do not look very stellar, especially in 2013 when the economy...

Yesterday, CRFB released its analysis of the latest budget projections from CBO, discussing debt, deficits, spending, and revenues. We also updated...

CBO released its new budget and economic outlook, showing slightly higher ten-year deficit and debt projections from 2012-2021 than the last ten-year...