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Have Stock Market Gains Reduced the National Debt?
Read moreOn Fox News last night, President Trump claimed the growth in the stock market has reduced the national debt. It has not. The two measures are not...
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Are Today's Seniors Facing a "Retirement Crisis?" Not Really
Read moreNumerous headlines have claimed that we are facing a “retirement crisis,” and that most Americans are not saving enough to maintain their standard of...
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Marc Goldwein: National Debt: Yes, Rising Annual Deficits Threaten the U.S. Economy
Read moreMarc Goldwein is the senior vice president and senior policy director of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. He recently wrote a column...
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Does 3% Growth Mean We Can Go Much Higher?
Read moreYesterday, President Trump gave a speech in which he mentioned that the U.S. economy grew 3.0 percent in the second quarter. While this is a solid...
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Do Retroactive Tax Cuts Do Much to Boost Economic Growth?
Read moreAs talk of tax reform heats up, some are calling for tax cuts to be made retroactive. An article in The Hill reports that Representative Mark Meadows...
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Judd Gregg: The Fed Leaps into the Unknown
Read moreThe Trump administration does not seem to consider the deficit or the federal debt to be much of a concern.
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Marc Goldwein on NPR's Planet Money: How to Get 3% Growth
Read moreAchieving 3 percent sustained annual growth would be incredibly difficult, yet that assumption is embedded in President Trump’s proposed budget. In an...
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Maya MacGuineas: Why is Trump's 3-percent growth target pure folly? Because math.
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...
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How Fast Can America Grow?
Read moreOfficial projections show real economic growth will average less than 2 percent annually over the next decade. However, some policymakers have...
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Policies to Grow the Economy
Read moreThe aging of the population will make achieving past levels of economic growth much more difficult in the years ahead. The Congressional Budget Office...
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Increasing Infrastructure Investment Must Be Paid For
Read moreIn a recent interview with The New York Times, President Trump said that he wants to invest $1 trillion in infrastructure because "we are borrowing...
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CBO Economic Forecast Sees Major Headwinds Facing Growth
Read morePredicting what the economy will look like over the next 30 years is no easy task, but the assumptions in the Congressional Budget Office’s (CBO) Long...