Budgets & Projections

Yesterday the CBO delivered a cost estimate for instituting permanent Medicare physician payment updates by repealing the sustainable growth rate (SGR...

The Administration has just announced a new small business lending initiative under the Treasury’s TARP. According to a White House release, the new...

Yesterday, President Obama signed the Agriculture Appropriations bill into law. The $121 billion measure includes $58 billion for food stamps -- a 7%...

Forbes had a piece Monday by Alex Brill and Amy Roden of the American Enterprise Institute about the potential for stimulus programs to expand the...

UPDATE: Pete Davis and Donald Marron commented on this story and defend the CBO as the best way to estimate cost. Douglas Holtz-Eakin explains that...

The message from the end of the year deficit number is clear: we must start planning how to get the deficit under control. A $1.4 TRILLION deficit is...

Here are the highlights from this weekend’s editorials on fiscal and budget policy: In an editorial titled, “The Greatest Show on Earth,” The Wall...

Today the Congressional Budget released their analysis of the amended version of the America’s Healthy Future Act of 2009, the health care reform...

Faced with massive debt burdens coming out of the economic and financial crisis – even before the retirement and health care tsunami hits – experts...

Saturday marked the one-year anniversary of the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), established as part of the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act...

This weekend, there have been a number of editorials about fiscal and budget policy. Among them: USA Today argued for "patching" the estate tax next...