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CBO Releases Long-Term Budget Outlook
Read moreIt's here — CBO has released its updated long-term baseline. Since December, many commentators have attempted to see where we stand since the fiscal...
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CRFB's Breakdown of the Long-Term Outlook
Read moreCBO'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...
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Op-Ed: Reason to Hope for Fiscal Sanity
Read moreThe Hill | September 17, 2013 For more than a decade, I have dedicated myself to sounding the alarm about our government’s fiscal mismanagement and...
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SGR Bill a Good Start but More Can Be Done for Less
Read moreThe Congressional Budget Office, on Friday, estimated that the Energy & Commerce Committee’s (E&C) bill to permanently replace the flawed Sustainable...
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As the Fed Meets, CRFB Quantifies Interest Rate Risk Facing the Budget
Read moreBeginning tomorrow, the Federal Open Market Committee, the Fed's interest rate setting and deliberative body that meets eight times a year -- will...
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MY VIEW: Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson September 2013
Read moreWe are now another week closer to a possible government showdown, and still no viable solution has emerged. But while a deal may have not come...
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Op-Ed: Government Shutdown? A Leap of Trust Can Seal a Budget Deal
Read moreChristian Science Monitor | September 16, 2012 Budget talk in Washington is again dominated by nonnegotiable demands and a potential government...
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Budget Director: We Still Have a Long-Term Debt Problem
Read moreReading the news these days, you might think our debt problem has been solved: the federal deficit has been revised downward and is falling to its...
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Event Recap: National Journal Fiscal Fallout Summit
Read moreYesterday, National Journal hosted " Fiscal Fallout: What is 'Responsible' in Today's Fiscal Reality," a policy summit convening experts to discuss...