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Another Price Index, Brought to You by Google
Read moreFor most, the world of inflation statistics can be mind-numbing. Economists have developed a variety of indices. And there are three different ones...
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Decision Time
Read moreThe new fiscal year has begun without a budget blueprint or any spending guidance enacted; the fiscal year 2010 deficit has been pegged at around $1.3...
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Let's Get Specific: Tax Expenditures
Read moreContinuing with our Let’s Get Specific series, which lays out specific plans and policies to help reduce our national debt, today we have released our...
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Esquire Commission Stabilizes the Debt!
Read moreThey Did It! Kudos to the Esquire Budget Commission for releasing a budget plan this morning! Former Senators Gary Hart, Bill Bradley, Bob Packwood...
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Op-Ed: Dear Congress: Don't Blow It On Bush Tax Cuts
Read moreCNN Money | October 12, 2010 Commentary: Maya MacGuineas is the director of the fiscal policy program at the New America Foundation. Ahem. Excuse me...
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CNN Exclusive: Dear Congress: Don't blow it on Bush tax cuts
Read moreCRFB President Maya MacGuineas offers some options for handling the expiring tax cuts.
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Congratulations to Peter Diamond!
Read moreAll of us here at CRFB would like to congratulate Peter Diamond, an MIT economist, on winning the Nobel Prize for Economics this year. Diamond, along...
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Local Pensions: A Crisis
Read moreWe spend much of our time discussing and pointing out the precarious state of our federal budget. But the federal budget isn't the only area of public...
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Fiscal Reform: U.K. Style
Read moreOur friend across the pond, the United Kingdom, is dealing with its own fiscal challenges. Currently, their debt-GDP ratio stands at over 71 percent...
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‘Line’ Items: Columbus Day Edition
Read moreDay of “Discovery” – Today we celebrate the man who quasi-discovered the Americas with a quasi-holiday that not everyone gets off (including the Line)...
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A Thousand Cuts: The Tax Version
Read moreThe Center for American Progress recently released " A Thousand Cuts," which detailed what spending cuts could be adopted to achieve primary budget...