Economics

We have been warning for a few months now about the potential consequences of the fiscal cliff -- and adding to the debt by averting it all together...

The 2012 Fiscal Summit presented by the Peter G. Peterson Foundation is today. Watch live here now and follow on Twitter with #FiscalSummit. Speakers...

This week’s The Economist offers another analysis of the end-of-year fiscal cliff of tax increases and spending cuts that the United States faces...

The news that Britain has entered into a double-dip recession touched off a fierce debate last week over the role of austerity in the country's...

Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke held a press conference yesterday following the conclusion of the Federal Open Market Committee meeting...

Our recent paper on the fiscal cliff details the short-term or longer-term economic problems that the country will face if lawmakers either allow...

Richard Haass, the President of the Council on Foreign Relations, argues that the biggest threat to U.S. national security might not be a continent...

The McKinsey Global Institute recently released a report assessing the efforts of the world’s ten largest mature economies (United States, Japan...

We noted earlier this week that CBO's current law economic assumptions in the near-term do not look very stellar, especially in 2013 when the economy...

Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer (MD) has been a member of CRFB's Announcement Effect Club since June of last year. During a briefing on the Hill yesterday...

As is the case every first Friday of the month, BLS released its jobs data, which for December showed another solid month for employment. About 200...

Yesterday, Moody's Analytics Chief Economist Mark Zandi penned an article in Politico about the various possible outcomes of the looming Super...