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If You Think Snowmageddon is Bad, Blizzard of Debt Will be Worse
Read moreExperts concerned about the nation’s fiscal and economic outlook braved the snow yesterday to participate in a Senate Budget Committee hearing on...
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President Releases $3.8 Trillion Budget
Read morePresident Obama released a Fiscal 2011 budget request today that would spend some $3.834 trillion next year and projects a deficit of $1.267 trillion...
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Stiglitz, Stimulus, the Financial Sector and the Genie
Read moreNobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz stopped by New America this week to discuss his new book "Freefall", about our economic and financial crisis. For the...
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Announcing the "Announcement Effect Club"
Read moreSince CRFB called for a Fiscal Recovery Plan in July, a growing number of prominent economists, organizations, and opinion leaders have joined us in...
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Jobs and Policy
Read moreAt the start of the new decade, one in every ten Americans is unemployed. By broader measures of unemployment (including discouraged workers who may...
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Deficit Hawks Love their Cake
Read moreOver the weekend one of our favorite bloggers, EconomistMom, joined an important discussion prompted by a Stan Collender blog that called out deficit...
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Can Government Debt Threaten Economic Growth?
Read moreAt this week’s American Economic Association meetings in Atlanta, two economists, Kenneth Rogoff and Carmen Reinhart, explore how high levels of...
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Thanks, Stan
Read moreIn a blog post earlier this week, Stan Collender presented a laundry list of suggestions about how deficit hawks can be more effective. As a proud...
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Event Recap: Release of 'Red Ink Rising'
Read moreOn December 14, the Peterson-Pew Commission on Budget Reform hosted a public event at the National Press Club to announce the release of its report...
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Peterson-Pew in the Press
Read moreThe Peterson-Pew Commission’s “Red Ink Rising” plan for American lawmakers has earned some black ink worldwide too since its release, not to mention...
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Fed Exit Strategy: Reverse Repos
Read moreHow and when the Fed will unwind the massive amounts of liquidity it has provided to shore up the financial system and economy? Will the Fed be able...
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Weekend Editorial Roundup
Read moreHere are the highlights from this weekend’s editorials on fiscal and budget policy: The New York Times applauded a CBO estimate that under the health...