Long-Term Outlook Series 2013

In light of CBO's updated long-term projections, and our subsequent CRFB Realistic Long-Term Projections, CRFB has taken a fresh look at the minimum...

The release of the Congressional Budget Office's (CBO) Long-Term Budget Outlook is one of the big events in the budget world, and we'd like to think...

Continuing with CRFB's analysis of CBO's latest long-term budget projections, we now turn our attention to one of the central themes throughout CBO's...

As part of our blog series on CBO's recent long-term budget and economic projections, we now turn our focus to the fastest growing part of the budget...

Although some argue that policymakers can wait to solve our long-term entitlement problems, CBO's recent Long-Term Budget Outlook suggests otherwise...

Update: The second graph has been corrected to show the correct year for each line. It is no secret that the growth of federal health care spending is...

Politicians and economists have long talked about the negative effects of an accumulating national debt, but cannot always quantify their position...

Update: CBO has now released its official Alternative Fiscal Scenario estimates (tab 6 of the Excel). They find that debt reaches 165 percent of GDP...

CBO's Long-Term Budget Outlook is a sizeable 126-page document with tons of facts and figures, and an accompanying spreadsheet with even more data. In...