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The 2022 U.S. Economy in Ten Charts
Read moreIn economic history, 2022 will be remembered for high and rising inflation and rising interest rates in response. While high inflation dominated the...
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Chris Towner: Three Charts That Tell America’s Troubling Fiscal Tale
Read moreChris Towner is policy director at the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. He recently wrote an opinion piece for Inside Sources , an excerpt...
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Mitch Daniels: Modern Monetary Theory, debunked everywhere except among government big-spenders
Read moreMitch Daniels is the president of Purdue University, a former governor of Indiana, a former director of the Office of Management and Budget, and a co...
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Fiscal Policy in a Time of High Inflation
Read moreInflation is currently surging at the fastest rate in more than four decades, with the Consumer Price Index (CPI) up 8.2 percent over the past year...
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Student Debt Cancellation is Not Financially Justified
Read moreThe White House has justified the unilateral implementation of its $400 billion student debt cancellation plan based on authority the Secretary of...
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Student Debt Changes Would Boost Inflation
Read moreThe student debt cancellation and relief measures announced earlier this week by the Biden Administration would cost around $500 billion over a decade...
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Cancelling Student Debt Would Undermine Inflation Reduction Act
Read moreThe recently-passed Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) will reduce budget deficits by roughly $275 billion while pushing fiscal policy in the right...
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IRA Will Help Fed Fight Inflation
Read moreA recent Penn Wharton Budget Model (PWBM) study has been used by opponents to claim the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) would increase rather than...
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Maya MacGuineas: Five ways national debt is canceling our future
Read moreMaya MacGuineas is president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and head of the Campaign to Fix the Debt. She recently wrote an opinion...
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New Economic Data Highlights Need to Fight Inflation, Not Add To It
Read moreThis morning, the Bureau of Economic Analysis estimated that Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE) inflation rose by 1.0 percent in June and 6.8...
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To Fight Inflation, More Deficit Reduction is Better
Read moreIn recent weeks, lawmakers have been negotiating a reconciliation package that would include roughly $1 trillion of revenue and health savings along...
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Christopher Towner: Cut debt and tax carbon to help bring down inflation
Read moreChris Towner is research director at the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. He recently wrote an opinion piece for Madison News , an excerpt...