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'Line' Items: Baseline Edition
Read moreBaseline Instinct – The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) on Tuesday released its much-awaited 2012 Budget and Economic Outlook. According to CBO, if...
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The Road to Economic Growth
Read moreThe McKinsey Global Institute recently released a report assessing the efforts of the world’s ten largest mature economies (United States, Japan...
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Bernanke 'Supportive of Going Big'
Read moreSupporters of enacting a comprehensive deficit reduction plan got a boost yesterday from Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke. At a hearing with the...
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Social Security in Even Worse Shape than Before
Read moreOver the course of this week, we have been discussing CBO's recent Budget and Economic Outlook. On Tuesday, we summarized the report and released a...
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It's About How and When, Not Just How Much
Read moreWe noted earlier this week that CBO's current law economic assumptions in the near-term do not look very stellar, especially in 2013 when the economy...
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Rudolph Penner: Controlling the Deficit--The Debate Continues
Read moreCRFB board member Rudolph Penner recently co-authored a paper that is essentially a retrospective on the 2011 deficit debate. He and Urban Institute...
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Taking a Hatchet to Tax Expenditures
Read moreThe good folks at the Tax Policy Center have written yet another enlightening report on tax expenditures. This one, titled, " Curbing Tax Expenditures...
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Watch the Extenders Conference Committee's Third Meeting
Read moreThe conference committee that is tasked with extending various provisions that are set to expire at the end of this month will meet for the third time...
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CRFB's New Realistic Baseline
Read moreYesterday, CRFB released its analysis of the latest budget projections from CBO, discussing debt, deficits, spending, and revenues. We also updated...
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Fiscal Fact Checker: Has the 'Doc Fix' Actually Become More Expensive?
Read moreA claim that has been popping up in some news circles over the past day is that the doc fix -- which freezes Medicare payments to physicians, instead...
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CBO Releases January 2012 Outlook
Read moreCBO released its new budget and economic outlook, showing slightly higher ten-year deficit and debt projections from 2012-2021 than the last ten-year...
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