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Marc Goldwein on You Don't Have to Yell Podcast Discussing Debt Ceiling
Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget Senior Vice President and Senior Policy Director Marc Goldwein recently appeared on the " You Don't Have to...
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The 2022 U.S. Economy in Ten Charts
In 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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Mitch Daniels: Modern Monetary Theory, debunked everywhere except among government big-spenders
Mitch 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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Christopher Towner: Cut debt and tax carbon to help bring down inflation
Chris Towner is research director at the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. He recently wrote an opinion piece for Madison News , an excerpt...
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Reconciliation Criticisms Are Off Base
As possible elements of a deficit-reducing reconciliation agreement have emerged, critics have attacked the plan for increasing recession risk...
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Marc Goldwein: The Fed Needs a Helping Hand to Fight Inflation
Marc Goldwein is senior vice president and senior policy director of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. He recently wrote an opinion...
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Six Ways to Fight Inflation
Personal Consumption Expenditure (PCE) inflation rose by 6.3 percent over the past year and 0.6 percent last month according to new data from the...
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Rumored Student Loan Cancellation Would Cost $230 Billion
Press reports indicate that President Biden could soon announce a plan to cancel at least $10,000 in debt for the vast majority of student loan...
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Cancelling Student Debt Would Add to Inflation
Lawmakers and advocates have loudened their calls to cancel student loan debt before the current re-payment moratorium ends on May 1 st . Given the...
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The 2021 U.S. Economy in Ten Charts
2021 was a unique year in economic history. Assisted by new COVID vaccines , accommodative monetary policy, and trillions of fiscal stimulus , the US...
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New Report Shows Student Debt Cancellation is Regressive
Recently, Adam Looney, Executive Director of the Marriner S. Eccles Institute at the University of Utah and a Nonresident Senior Fellow in Economic...
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2021 Inflation Totaled 6.7 Percent
The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) today released Consumer Price Index (CPI) inflation data for December 2021 . Based on BLS’s data, we estimate CPI...