Playing Dead – Lawmakers face several deadlines in coming weeks as the number of days that Congress will be in session dwindles. Deadlines loom at the...

The AARP has just released a helpful new paper considering the pros and cons of different options to reform Social Security. Our fiscal outlook in the...

Former Senator Judd Gregg (R-NH) has an op-ed in The Hill this morning titled, "Lawmakers Haven't Run Out of Time to Craft a Bipartisan Deficit Deal."...

The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) has released its June 2012 report, detailing ways in which Congress can improve Medicare to better...

The Urban Institute has a new report on the charitable deduction (co-authored by CRFB board member Eugene Steuerle) that details some options for...

A POLITICO article reports on an effort underway at the Senate Finance Committee to negotiate an extension of the "tax extenders," narrow temporary...

CBO's latest report details the full effects on the federal budget of raising the federal excise tax on cigarettes. As they would when analyzing any...

Although budget projections had already been showing this, we now have more definitive numbers from the Treasury Department that this year's deficit...

Actuaries at the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services have published a new report detailing their projections for health care spending growth...

With the release of CBO's Long-Term Budget Outlook last week, CRFB has updated the Realistic Baseline to incorporate elements of CBO's long-term...

Undead Ends – Recent reports of disturbing behavior have raised the specter of a zombie apocalypse, where the undead overrun civilization. Flesh/brain...