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Re-visiting the President's Budget: OMB's Mid-Session Review
Read moreThe OMB has released its Mid-Session Review (MSR), essentially a re-estimate of the President's budget taking into new legislative, economic, and...
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CRFB Reiterates Its Call to Debate the Debt
Read moreIn light of the Commission on Presidential Debates announcing the debate format for this year's presidential cycle, CRFB once again called for a...
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Lieberman and Collins Stand Up for Fiscal Responsibility
Read moreYesterday the Senate voted on two highly polarized tax plans, with a Democratic version passing 51-48 while the Republican supported bill failing to...
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The Concord Coalition Provides Fiscal Lessons From Europe
Read moreThe Concord Coalition has just unveiled a new paper, authored by Edmund Andrews, Joe Minarik, and Diane Lim Rodgers, called " Not Just Their Problem...
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Comparing the Unpaid-For Tax Cut Extensions
Read moreThe Senate is set to vote in the coming days on dueling one-year extensions of the 2001/2003/2010 tax cuts and Alternative Minimum Tax patch, with...
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Online Sales Tax Debate Heats Up
Read moreLast week, our "Spotlight on the States" blog post highlighted structural challenges for the states, one of them being an eroding sales tax base. The...
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AARP Event Discusses Population Aging Across the Globe
Read moreThe American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) hosted an event entitled "Work, Retirement Age, and Fiscal Sustainability in an Aging World." Two...
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It's Not Free Money
Read morePaul Krugman and other advocates of more federal stimulus spending cite today’s extremely low real interest rates, near zero or negative, as reason to...
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Updated Estimates of the Affordable Care Act
Read moreToday, the Congressional Budget Office released two reports revising estimates for the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The first report provides updated...
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GAO: The Debt Limit Fight Cost the Treasury $1.3 Billion
Read moreWith 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...