CBO/JCT

Continuing with CRFB's analysis of CBO's latest long-term budget projections, we now turn our attention to one of the central themes throughout CBO's...

Although some argue that policymakers can wait to solve our long-term entitlement problems, CBO's recent Long-Term Budget Outlook suggests otherwise...

Update: The second graph has been corrected to show the correct year for each line. It is no secret that the growth of federal health care spending is...

Politicians and economists have long talked about the negative effects of an accumulating national debt, but cannot always quantify their position...

Update: CBO has now released its official Alternative Fiscal Scenario estimates (tab 6 of the Excel). They find that debt reaches 165 percent of GDP...

It's here — CBO has released its updated long-term baseline. Since December, many commentators have attempted to see where we stand since the fiscal...

CBO's Long-Term Budget Outlook is a sizeable 126-page document with tons of facts and figures, and an accompanying spreadsheet with even more data. In...

The Congressional Budget Office, on Friday, estimated that the Energy & Commerce Committee’s (E&C) bill to permanently replace the flawed Sustainable...

Reading the news these days, you might think our debt problem has been solved: the federal deficit has been revised downward and is falling to its...

Last month after the Bureau of Economic Analysis revised their GDP numbers going back to 1929, we decided to take the intiative and project what the...