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Understanding the Long Term Budget Projections
Read moreAs if we didn't have enough on CBO's Long Term Outlook last week, we have more long-term budget projections, this time in the form of CRFB's Realistic...
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Senate Armed Services Committee Report
Read moreAs our nation’s debt continues along its unsustainable path, it has become increasingly essential for a comprehensive fiscal plan that targets all...
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GAO Study: Complexity of Tax Code is Costly
Read moreYesterday the Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a study on the complexity of the federal tax code at a Senate Finance Committee hearing...
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CRFB's Maya MacGuineas Says U.S. Must Raise Debt Ceiling
Read moreYesterday CRFB President Maya MacGuineas appeared on Bloomberg Television to talk about how imperative it is to address our dire fiscal outlook while...
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CBO Makes the Case for Strict Pay-As-You-Go (PAYGO) Rules
Read moreIn their recent Long Term Outlook, CBO shows the nation to be on an unsustainable fiscal path if we continue our current policies. Under its...
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MY VIEW: Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson June 2011
Read moreIn a recently published op-ed in The Hill, CRFB board members Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson write that a serious fiscal reform plan must be agreed...
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The Consequences of Default
Read moreLast week the Economist published an article entitled America's debt ceiling: The mother of all tail risks. This article explains what could happen if...
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‘Line’ Items: Columbo Edition
Read moreWhere Is Our Columbo? – Peter Falk, the award-winning actor best known for playing the rumpled, yet wily, Lt. Columbo, died on Thursday. Falk, who was...
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A Solution for the Debt Ceiling Debate?
Read moreDespite House Majority Leader Eric Cantor’s (R-VA) decision yesterday to withdraw from the Biden-led negotiations to avoid default, there is still...
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Budget Path: How Feds Can Avert the Fiscal Crisis
Read moreThe Public Manager | June 24, 2011 In the wake of the recent financial meltdown from which we are still recovering, the United States faces the...