Debt & Deficits

Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles are the former chairs of the Simpson-Bowles Fiscal Commission and members of the Committee for a Responsible Federal...

We noted in our discussion of the final Monthly Treasury Statement for 2014 that the deficit has fallen by two-thirds since 2009 after rising by...

With the Treasury Department's year-end Monthly Treasury Statement having been released, we have revised last week's report today showing what the...

With the FY 2014 deficit continuing a trend of falling deficits over the past few years, some commentators have argued that budget hawks are...

With the Congressional Budget Office's (CBO) year-end Monthly Budget Review having been released, we published a report today showing what the 2014...

In an op-ed in the Washington Post yesterday, editor Fred Hiatt pushed back on assertions by the Obama Administration that they have won over the...

House Republicans plan to vote this week on a jobs package combining bills that would "build a robust economy and foster job creation." While...

Former Pennsylvania governor and Fix the Debt Campaign co-chair Ed Rendell (D) has penned an op-ed arguing that progressive candidates should care...

The Council on Foreign Relations has released a new report and scorecard comparing the United States federal debt situation to other G-7 countries...

In a recent New York Times column, economist Paul Krugman argued that the focus on the national debt represented “an imaginary budget and debt crisis...