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Reinhart and Rogoff Release Errata
Read moreEconomists Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff of Harvard University have issued an erratum to their 2010 paper, “ Growth in a Time of Debt.” Their...
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Don't Put the Budget on the Back Burner
Read moreA recent Washington Post article, “ As Red Ink Recedes, Pressure Fades for a Budget Deal,” suggests that a fall in the short term deficits may...
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Immigration Reform: A Boon to Social Security?
Read moreOn the eve of the Senate Judiciary Committee marks up the Gang of Eight’s immigration bill, Stephen Goss, the Chief Actuary of the Social Security...
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Tax Writers Assemble!
Read moreWith tax reform growing as a topic of discussion in DC, the two leaders of the tax-writing committees in the House and Senate -- Rep. Dave Camp (R-MI)...
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Line Items: Cicada Edition
Read moreLots of Buzz – The Cicadas are coming back. After maturing underground for 17 years, billions of the insects from the Brood II cohort are beginning to...
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The Challenge of Corporate Tax Reform
Read moreTax reform has many moving pieces to it and many questions that need to be answered. One question is whether the two pieces should be handled together...
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Event Recap: The 2013 Fiscal Summit
Read moreToday, the Peter G. Peterson Foundation held its third annual Fiscal Summit, assembling a number of prominent current and former lawmakers, experts...
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JCT Hands Out Programs for the Tax Reform Debate
Read moreAs work on tax reform gets going, the Joint Committee on Taxation has provided a 568-page report laying out just about everything you need to know...
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A Budgetary Look at Immigration Reform
Read moreAs lawmakers gear up to debate immigration reform in the weeks and months ahead, it will likely coincide with the ongoing budget debate in Washington...
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Deficit Reduction Doesn't Need to Be Front-loaded
Read moreRegular readers of The Bottom Line are probably familiar with our goal of putting the debt on a downward path as a share of the economy over the long...
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On Reinhart and Rogoff
Read moreHarvard professors Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff’s (R&R) 2010 paper, Growth in a Time of Debt, has been all over the news in the past few weeks...
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The Real Corporate Tax Game
Read moreA recent article in The New York Times entitled " The Corporate Tax Game" details the tricky politics of corporate tax reform, especially when it...