Paul Krugman and other advocates of more federal stimulus spending cite today’s extremely low real interest rates, near zero or negative, as reason to...

Today, the Congressional Budget Office released two reports revising estimates for the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The first report provides updated...

With the debt ceiling projected to come back in play sometime in December or January, it is helpful to be reminded of the cost of the last debt...

A new working paper by four authors at the International Monetary Fund takes a look at fiscal rules around the world. The Peterson-Pew Commission on...

With the roll out of the Campaign to Fix the Debt on Tuesday, there has been plenty of statements of support, as our newest release shows. Some of...

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke addressed Senate Finance Committee on Tuesday and the House Finance Committee yesterday with more warnings about...

The Urban Institute held an event today (video here) on children and the federal budget, which involved CRFB Senior Policy Director Marc Goldwein and...

Since our last Appropriations Update last month, there has not been much action on appropriations bills. On the House side, the full House has passed...

Yesterday, the Campaign to Fix the Debt officially launched with a press conference at that National Press Club. The Campaign is intended to drum up...

The State Budget Crisis Task Force -- a group of budget experts including the likes of former CBO and OMB director Alice Rivlin, former Federal...

Update: C-SPAN has uploaded a video of the event. You can view it here. Today, CRFB is helping to launch the Campaign to Fix the Debt at the National...

After the report we released in March, the topic of the fiscal cliff has risen in prominence as CBO and others have attempted to estimate the size of...