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An Insurance Conglomerate with a Shrinking Government on the Side, in Three Graphs
Read moreIt's no secret that a significant portion of the federal budget is devoted to our national defense and insurance programs like Social Security... -
CBO Lowers Estimate for Increasing the Medicare Eligibility Age
Read moreYesterday, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) dramatically lowered its estimate of savings if policymakers chose to increase the Medicare... -
Government Shutdown Limits Budget Data, Too
Read moreLast week, we noted that the furlough of "non-essential" employees at the Congressional Budget Office due to the government shutdown could halt the... -
Government Shutdown Limits Budget Options (Literally!)
Read moreThe government is still shut down, the debt ceiling is fast approaching, and the need to put our debt on a sustainble path remains. This environment... -
Discussion with CBO Director Elmendorf on the Costs of Waiting to Address Fiscal Challenges
Read moreAt the House Budget Committee hearing on CBO's Long-Term Outlook, Rep. Reid Ribble (R-WI), who last week sent a letter calling for action on Social... -
Introducing CRFB's Latest Long-Term Realistic Baseline
Read moreThe release of the Congressional Budget Office's (CBO) Long-Term Budget Outlook is one of the big events in the budget world, and we'd like to think... -
CBO: A Growing Debt Burden Is a Risky Path to Be On
Read moreContinuing 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... -
CBO: Social Security Looks Much Worse Than We Thought
Read moreAlthough some argue that policymakers can wait to solve our long-term entitlement problems, CBO's recent Long-Term Budget Outlook suggests otherwise... -
CBO Still Unsure Whether Recent Health Care Slowdown Means Lower Long-Term Growth
Read moreUpdate: 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... -
What Do High Debt Levels Do To Our Economy?
Read morePoliticians and economists have long talked about the negative effects of an accumulating national debt, but cannot always quantify their position... -
What Happened to the Alternative Fiscal Scenario?
Read moreUpdate: CBO has now released its official Alternative Fiscal Scenario estimates (tab 6 of the Excel). They find that debt reaches 165 percent of GDP... -
CBO Releases Long-Term Budget Outlook
Read moreIt's here — CBO has released its updated long-term baseline. Since December, many commentators have attempted to see where we stand since the fiscal...