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Kurt Couchman: When will cheap credit dry up?
Read moreKurt Couchman is co-director of legislative strategy at the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. He recently wrote an opinion piece for The...
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Erskine Bowles and Henry Paulson: How to Get Americans to Love Capitalism Again
Read moreErskine Bowles served as chief of staff to President Bill Clinton from 1997 to 1998 and is a member of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget...
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Maya MacGuineas: With a growing debt, a fiscally responsible blueprint is needed to handle the next recession
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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Break Glass Here: A Responsible Plan to Combat the Next Recession
Read moreThe United States is in the midst of one of the longest periods of sustained economic growth in its history, but there are signs that this prolonged...
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CBO: Fixing the Debt Would Increase Income
Read morePutting debt on a downward path could increase average income by almost $9,000 per person per year, or about 10 percent as compared to continuing on...
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Maya MacGuineas: America's Biggest Weakness is No Big Secret
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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Was the Federal Reserve’s Monetary Tightening Unprecedented?
Read moreIn a Wall Street Journal op-ed, House Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Kevin Brady (R-TX) and former National Economic Council director Larry...
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Economists Agree: Deficits Matter
Read moreRarely do economists agree on anything. But a survey this week through the University of Chicago's IGM Forum found that 42 top economists from across...
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Maya MacGuineas: The Rise of Free Lunch Economics & the Growth of Our National Debt
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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Erskine Bowles: Americans are being left behind. Here's how we fix it.
Read moreMany Americans are being left behind by today’s modern, global economy, and they are justifiably angry about it.
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The Longest Shutdown Has Hit Consumer Sentiment the Hardest
Read moreIt's not just the economy that's taken a hit from the partial shutdown of the government. Consumer confidence has taken a dip as well, falling more...
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The Government Shutdown Could Wipe Out Recent Stimulus Effects on This Quarter
Read moreThe current government shutdown has lasted long enough to temporarily erase all the positive stimulus effects of recent major legislation. Chairman of...