Reporting from The Wall Street Journal has indicated that lawmakers from both parties are taking a look at using an alternative measure of inflation...

Crunch Time – The Washington Redskins kept their playoff hopes alive with a come-from-behind victory in sudden-death overtime over the Baltimore...

The Treasury Department reported today that it will sell its remaining shares in AIG, ending a more than four-year assistance program. The final sale...

The Government Accountability Office has updated its long-term budget outlook, showing once again that our budget deficit needs to seriously be...

In recent weeks, we've heard a lot about what each side is willing to do to avoid the fiscal cliff, but not nearly enough about how lawmakers intend...

Urban Institute scholar and CRFB board member Gene Steuerle writes in his blog The Government We Deserve that the current revenue proposals from both...

It may be true currently that although our national debt has been growing rapidly, interest rates are low. This fact has led some leading economic...

Fiscal Commission co-chair Alan Simpson appeared last night on "The Daily Show" to talk about the fiscal cliff and the national debt. And of course...

Former U.S. Comptroller General David Walker writes in today's Politico that not all of the attention should be on the upcoming fiscal cliff - we also...

Yesterday, Taxpayers for Common Sense sent a letter to President Obama, House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH), and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV...