With the FY 2014 deficit continuing a trend of falling deficits over the past few years, some commentators have argued that budget hawks are...

While explaining why deficits have fallen from their historically large peak in 2009, we noted the main source of this tumble is a 43 percent rise in...

With the Congressional Budget Office's (CBO) year-end Monthly Budget Review having been released, we published a report today showing what the 2014...

With today's release of the Congressional Budget Office's (CBO) final Monthly Budget Review for Fiscal Year (FY) 2014, many will be focused on the...

The national debt is currently twice the historical average, and will grow unsustainably until Congress makes responsible changes. Voters should be...

It is no secret that the 113th Congress has had little success reaching agreement on major policy changes, so its lackluster results on a report card...

In an op-ed in the Washington Post yesterday, editor Fred Hiatt pushed back on assertions by the Obama Administration that they have won over the...

Maya MacGuineas, President of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, wrote a commentary that appeared in the Wall Street Journal Washington...

The Federal Reserve's efforts to help the economy recover through quantitative easing (QE), twisting, and tapering have made front page news without...

If Republicans win a majority in the U.S. Senate this November, they may push to have the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and the Joint Committee on...

A new paper by Donald Marron of the Urban Institute brings a new idea to the table in the debate over accounting methods for federal lending programs...

Two weeks ago, we discussed results from two different Accountable Care Organization (ACO) programs in Medicare, which showed an improvement in...