With health care spending a central topic in budget discussions, the actuaries at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) have released a...

Last week, as reported on our " Debt Ceiling Watch" blog, the U.S. reached the statutory debt limit, and the Treasury Department began using...

While the American Taxpayer Relief Act has put off worries about the fiscal cliff for a month, it is clear that we missed a clear opportunity to do...

The American Taxpayer Relief Act has been discussed at length in the news and on this blog, but much of the discussion has been focused on the big...

Should Old Reluctance Be Forgot? – A new year and a new Congress have been ushered in. However, hopes for putting behind the fighting and foot...

So far, we have analyzed the fiscal cliff deal by looking at the good, the bad, and the ugly in the package, showing what the deal does to the budget...

Today, CRFB put out a release, " Washington's Gift for the New Year: Another Kicked Can," on the fiscal cliff deal and previous missed opportunities...

With President Obama's signing of the American Taxpayer Relief Act (ATRA), lawmakers have avoided most of the upfront hit of the fiscal cliff but have...

After a tense few days, or weeks for that matter, lawmakers have enacted a fiscal cliff package -- the American Taxpayer Relief Act. With budget...

Update: CBO confirmed our numbers today, finding a remaining fiscal contraction of about 1 1/4 percent . The American Taxpayer Relief Act which...

Last night, the House passed the fiscal cliff package already agreed upon by the Senate, by a 257-167 vote. Now the bill is headed to the White House...