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CBO Releases Analysis of Finance Committee Health Care Reform Bill
Read moreThe Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has released the preliminary analysis of the completed specifications for the Finance Committee’s Chairman’s... -
A Brief History of (Financial) Time
Read moreThis week marks the one year anniversary of the Lehman Brothers collapse, an event that both seriously destabilized and ominously ruptured the U.S... -
The Lehman Collapse -- One Year Later
Read moreThis week marks the one year anniversary of the Lehman Brothers collapse, an event that both seriously destabilized and ominously ruptured the U.S... -
The Second Ten Years
Read moreCQ reports that CBO is likely to score the costs of the Senate Finance Committee health care bill for the second ten year period. This is excellent... -
Another $95 Billion of Budgeting Through Footnotes
Read moreLast week, we wrote about $85 billion worth of stimulus tax cuts which the Obama administration assumed as permanant in their baseline so that they... -
Budgeting through Footnotes
Read moreThis morning, Lori Montgomery of the Washington Post reported on the decision of the Obama administration to incorporate $85 billion in tax breaks... -
Constructing a "Current Policy" Baseline
Read moreToday, US Budget Watch released The Cost of “Current Policy”. In this analysis, we show that, while deeply troublesome, CBO’s $7.1 trillion ten-year... -
The Cost of "Current Policy"
Read moreThe CBO recently projected a ten-year deficit of $7.1 trillion using a "current law" baseline. But these numbers may prove to be optimistic. CRFB... -
The Ups and Downs of Buttressing the Economy
Read moreYesterday, the Wall Street Journal posted an article discussing the FDIC’s soon-to-be urgent need to draw money from its $500 billion Treasury line of... -
So What Will the Deficit Really Be?
Read moreLast week, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its updated Budget and Economic Outlook and the Office of Management and Budget (OMB)... -
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Put Another $2 Trillion on the Tab
Read moreCRFB released this report on OMB's Mid-Session Review. (We will soon release a more detailed analysis.) CBO provides a comparison chart between OMB...