Economy

As our national debt and deficit continue to rise, a question that continues to be on many people’s minds is how rising debt levels impact the economy...

In an interview with Forbes contributor Henry Doss, former Fiscal Commission co-chair Erskine Bowles explains just how our unsustainable debt...

Update: CBO confirmed our numbers today, finding a remaining fiscal contraction of about 1 1/4 percent . The American Taxpayer Relief Act which...

In September, the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) announced a third round of quantitative easing, consisting of purchases of mortgage-backed...

It is a point of consensus among those following the budget that the fiscal cliff would likely be very damaging for the economy in the short term...

Our colleagues Jason Delisle and Alex Holt of the New America Foundation's Federal Education Budget Project have released a new paper "Safety Net or...

With the release of September inflation numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the Social Security Administration also announced its cost-of...

We have seen many lawmakers and business leaders claim that the fiscal cliff is holding back the recovery and leading to higher unemployment, and in...

The Center for Strategic and International Studies hosted an event today chaired by former Senators Sam Nunn (D-GA), who is a member of the steering...

We've warned many times before that going off the fiscal cliff would throw the economy into a double dip recession. With CBO's updated budget and...

In a new investor note, Alec Philips of Goldman Sachs produced a useful new chart comparing three different scenarios for extending all the fiscal...

Are we really borrowing for free, and should we be taking advantage of it? Over the last few years, we’ve seen interest rates continue to fall to...