Debt & Deficits
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A "Cheat Sheet" to Our Recent Work on Debt
Read moreOver the past month, we've been explaining different elements of CBO's recent budget outlook. Below is a summary of our recent work. Decade of Debt... -
Budget Barometer: 6 Key Debt Numbers
Read moreA good way to judge the national debt is as a share of the overall economy (or GDP). Based on the latest figures from the Congressional Budget Office... -
Interest Spending is on Course to Triple
Read moreAccording to CBO's latest projections, the rising cost of interest on the debt is a significant driver of growing deficits and debt. In this piece, we... -
Debt Could be Twice the Size of the Economy by Mid-Century
Read moreThe Congressional Budget Office's (CBO) recent ten-year budget projections show that debt is on course to exceed the size of the economy in just over... -
IMF: US is the Only Advanced Economy With Debt Rising
Read moreThe International Monetary Fund (IMF) issued a new report yesterday projecting that debt as a share of GDP will decline over the next five years for... -
More Than Half of Next Year's Deficit is Congress's Fault
Read moreThe budget deficit will approach the trillion-dollar mark next year, according to recent projections from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO). Well... -
Analysis of CBO’s April 2018 Budget and Economic Outlook
Read moreThe Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its ten-year budget and economic outlook today, showing that recent legislation has made an already... -
New From CBO: Trillion-Dollar Deficits Will Return In Two Years
Read moreThe Congressional Budget Office (CBO) just released its latest baseline projections – the first since last June and the first to incorporate the... -
Chartbook: America's Deteriorating Budget Outlook
Read moreAn updated version of this chartbook is available here Below is a chartbook on America's deteriorating budget outlook. -
Maya MacGuineas: America's Debt Crisis is Coming – Interest Payments Will Hit a Trillion Dollars a Year
Read moreMaya MacGuineas is president of the nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and head of the Campaign to Fix the Debt. She recently... -
Maya MacGuineas: Federal Budget Increasingly Tilted Against Investment in Children
Read moreMaya MacGuineas is president of the nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and head of the Campaign to Fix the Debt. She recently... -
Updating the U.S. Budget Outlook
Read moreNote (4/30/2018): This paper was published before CBO's April 2018 baseline, which provides official estimates of the fiscal situation. For the...