Debt & Deficits
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How Lawmakers Could Make the Budget Outlook Even Worse
Read moreCBO's summary of its budget outlook included a short summary of the long-term debt outlook, which showed debt rising continuously and eventually... -
Everything You Need to Know About CBO's January 2016 Budget and Economic Outlook
Read moreWe've published a new chartbook to illustrate the most important facts and figures from this week's report by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO)... -
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Report: Analysis of CBO’s January 2016 Budget and Economic Outlook
Read moreThe Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its January Budget and Economic Outlook, today, adding more detail to a brief summary released on... -
Sanford Says Candidates Aren't Talking About Debt, Deficit
Read moreCongressman Mark Sanford (R-SC) wrote a piece in The Fiscal Times that highlights the paucity of substantive discussion from the 2016 presidential... -
2015’s Fiscal Follies and Reasons for Hope
Read moreIt’s the end of the year and like so many organizations, CRFB wanted to share with you our top 10 list: a look back at Congress’s 10 top fiscal... -
How a Fed Rate Increase Could Affect the Budget
Read moreToday, the Federal Open Market Committee, the Fed's interest rate setting and deliberative body that meets eight times a year, could announce that... -
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Peuquet Highlights Importance of Budget Debates
Read moreAs we face an end-of-the-year legislative crunch that promises to be fiscally irresponsible, former Research Director of the Committee for a... -
Five Years Since Simpson-Bowles: How Much of It Have We Enacted?
Read moreToday marks the fifth anniversary of the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform's (Fiscal Commission's) vote on the Simpson-Bowles... -
Q&A: Everything You Should Know About the Debt Ceiling - Oct 2015
Read moreMarch 2017 Note: We have updated this Q&A. A new version is available here. -
Update: Why Our Debt Is Still a Problem Even if Deficits Fall
Read moreSeptember 30th marked the end of the Fiscal Year, and the final numbers are in. The deficit for last year was $439 billion, according to the final...