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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...
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The Economic Effects of High Debt
Read moreContinuing our analysis of CBO's Long-Term Outlook, we looked yesterday at the policy assumptions under CBO's two budget paths and at spending and...
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CBO's Elmendorf to Testify Before House Budget Committee at 10am Today
Read moreAt 10am today, CBO director Doug Elmendorf will testify before the House Budget Committee on CBO's latest Long-Term Budget Outlook, released yesterday...
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Event Recap: 2011 CRFB Annual Conference and Dinner
Read moreOn June 14, the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget held its 2011 Annual Conference and Dinner on Capitol Hill. This year’s roundtable...
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Health Care Versus Aging
Read moreAs we explained in our recent analysis of CBO's Long-Term Budget Outlook, the debt is on an unsustainable path. Only a decade from now, under their...