At the Federal Reserve meetings in Jackson Hole, CRFB President Maya MacGuineas, commented on fiscal policy and the need for a credible debt reduction...

Today the President’s Economic Recovery Advisory Board issued a report on tax reform options. The report should encourage and inform a vital...

Today, CRFB released a new policy paper showing a more probable fiscal outlook over the coming decade than what baseline budget projections would...

If lawmakers extended various current policies, as opposed to letting them expire as they are set to under current law, what would happen to economic...

Credit-rating agency Standard & Poor’s has a message to U.S. policymakers: We are watching you on the growing national debt. In an interview today in...

Yesterday, CBO released an update on the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act’s (read our analysis of it here) impact on unemployment and job growth...

Debate over the 2001/2003 tax cuts is centered on its economic and budgetary aspects and effects. The President has proposed extending the tax cuts...

House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH) gave an economic speech today that was billed as setting the policy table if Republicans gain control of...

Back to School – For many kids, parents and teachers today is the first day of school. Congress is still out until after Labor Day, but policymakers...

Since economic assumptions have such a big effect on fiscal projections, we have compared their new assumptions in the Updated Budget and Economic...

In the wake of its fiscal crisis, Greece has taken sufficient definitive steps to reduce its budget deficit that it is in line to receive another $11...