Yesterday, Medicare trustee Charles Blahous and former chief economist for Vice President Biden Jared Bernstein had a debate about the fiscal...

Estimates of the fiscal cliff that is set to occur at the end of the year have been popping up in recent weeks. Now CBO has lended its voice to the...

Much Not to ‘Like’ – Facebook had its initial public offering (IPO) on Friday. The hype surrounding the offering illustrated the prominence of social...

Yesterday, Zeke Emanuel advanced an interesting proposal for Social Security and Medicare in a blog at The New York Times: varying the retirement ages...

When discussing new types of revenue or tax structures for the federal government to consider the other month, we touched on financial sector taxes as...

Donald Marron, who recently wrote a blog post on how budget limits are treated in Congressional rules, wrote a piece today detailing how Medicare Part...

Via the Washington Post, it seems that the House majority is looking at creating a fast track procedure for passing tax reform in 2013. This will...

UPDATE: This blog has been updated to include CBO's brief about the fiscal cliff. About a month ago, we reported our estimates of how much the fiscal...

Steep budget cuts are linked to recession and higher unemployment in Europe, argue several commentators (see here for example). Are they right...

Former President Bill Clinton joined the Announcement Effect Club at the Peter G. Peterson Foundation's Fiscal Summit yesterday in a Q&A session with...

We have been warning for a few months now about the potential consequences of the fiscal cliff -- and adding to the debt by averting it all together...