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Op-Ed: S&P Rating: How to Get Back to AAA
Read moreCNN Money | August 8, 2011 Oh, AAA credit rating -- we never knew how much we loved you until we lost you. Just one more chance, please! It's like a...
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‘Line’ Items: Downturns and Downgrades Edition
Read moreDowners – Markets were down last week on fears that the European debt crisis was spreading and that the U.S. recovery was slowing down. These losses...
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Op-Ed: With Downgrade, Now Can We Get Serious About Debt?
Read moreCNN | August 6, 2011 You can't say we didn't have a heads up. Just a few weeks ago, S&P said: "We may lower the long-term rating on the U.S. by one or...
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S & P Downgrades the United States
Read moreYesterday, the Standard & Poor's rating agency downgraded the United States' long-term bond rating from AAA to AA+. This downgrade is consistent with...
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CBO Releases Social Security Projections
Read moreCBO's latest Social Security projections bring no surprises to anyone familiar with the state of the program's finances. CBO projects the program to...
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Will We Have a Lower Deficit This Year Than Last Year?
Read moreBudget projections are a rather fickle thing, especially in the midst of great uncertainty about the strength of the economic recovery. By accident...
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CRFB Board Members Offer Thoughts on Debt Deal
Read moreThe debt deal signed into law by President Obama on Tuesday has provoked all kinds of reactions from the media, the public, and lawmakers ( click here...
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OMB Director Jack Lew on the Defense Cuts in the Debt Deal
Read moreThe main savings feature that the debt deal (the Budget Control Act) contained--outside of the joint committee--is the discretionary spending caps...
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MY VIEW: Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson August 2011
Read moreIn an op-ed in today's New York Times, CRFB board members and former fiscal commission co-chairs Erskine Bowles and Sen. Alan Simpson offered their...
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New York Times' David Leonhardt on The Colbert Report
Read moreLast night on The Colbert Report, David Leonhardt of The New York Times talked about the debt deal recently signed into law and why it's not enough to...
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Options for Limiting Tax Expenditures
Read moreUpdate: Howard Gleckman of Tax Policy Center has blogged on their paper over at TaxVox. With the chaos of the debt ceiling now over, it's time to take...
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Congress Approves Debt Ceiling Deal
Read moreUpdate: President Obama has signed the deal into law. Washington took the debt limit to the edge as the Senate voted today, 74-26, to enact the...