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Accounting For Growth With Trump's Fiscal Plans
Read moreLast week, we estimated that Donald Trump's policies would increase ten-year deficits by $5.3 trillion, resulting in debt held by the public reaching...
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Getting Real About Paying For Trump's Tax Plan
Read moreRepublican Presidential candidate Donald Trump announced significant revisions to his tax plan that would reduce its cost by about half, a change CRFB...
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Interest Rates Drive Changes in CBO's Latest Outlook
Read moreBy far the biggest revision to the Congressional Budget Office's (CBO's) latest ten-year budget projections are the lower projected interest rates...
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Running on Empty? Fiscal Space and the Next Recession
Read moreThe national debt increased dramatically during and after the Great Recession, rising from 35 percent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in 2007 to 66...
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CBO: Federal Investment is Good for Long-Term Growth - If It's Paid For
Read morePublic investment has the potential to significantly increase economic growth, but only if its paid for – that's the key finding of a recent report...
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Scoring Clinton and Trump with Different Growth Assumptions
Read moreIn our analysis "Promises and Price Tags: A Fiscal Guide to the 2016 Election," we compared the fiscal effects of the policies proposed by presumptive...
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Gene Steuerle: Opportunity for All Isn’t Gonna Happen on This Path
Read moreOver the past 30 or 35 years, income and government spending per household have both about doubled, but working- and middle-class Americans have seen...
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Donald Trump's Treasury Buyback Plan
Read moreLast week, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump made waves in a CNBC interview when he seemed to indicate that he would seek to renegotiate...
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Maya MacGuineas: Dangers in Donald Trump’s Debt Suggestions
Read moreMaya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and head of the Campaign to Fix the Debt, wrote a commentary that...
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Is Sustained 5 Percent Annual Growth Possible?
Read moreSince faster economic growth would represent a boon for wages and the fiscal situation, a number of Presidential candidates have been promising or...
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Maya MacGuineas: Donald Trump and Ted Cruz’s Magical Budget Math
Read moreMaya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and head of the Campaign to Fix the Debt, wrote an op-ed that appeared in...
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Fact Sheet: How Much Can the Economy Grow?
Read moreSince faster economic growth would represent a boon for wages and the fiscal situation, a number of Presidential candidates have been promising or...