The extenders bill the House is considering would cost $190 billion between 2010-2020. Only $56 billion of that would be offset. Emergency...

Yesterday CBO issued a very interesting report on the budgetary impact of the Federal Reserve's actions to address the economic and financial crisis...

The U.S. Census Bureau came out with with a report this month on aging in the United States. Not to anyone's surprise, the report found that between...

A few months back, we discussed a comprehensive proposal by Senators Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Judd Gregg (R-NH), the Bipartisan Tax Fairness and...

CBO and JCT have released updated cost estimates of the most recent version of the American Jobs and Closing Tax Loopholes Act (H.R. 4213), a bill...

As Congress debates hundreds of billion of dollars of new deficit-spending this week, they may also begin considering two proposals which can actually...

Heavy Congressional Workload Before Break – Congress has a busy week ahead before it leaves town for next week’s Memorial Day recess. Lawmakers want...

Princeton's Alan Blinder says the bond market vigilantes are back; in Europe for now, but they'll be coming here soon. The bond vigilantes, for those...

Throughout the week, U.S. financial markets continued to be dominated by a global market “flight to quality” in response to perceived EU policy...

Last week we wrote about the introduction of YouCut, a project designed to allow people to vote on spending cuts they would like to see Congress enact...

We are so pleased our Stabilize the Debt! simulator has been met with such a positive response. Thanks for all your emails and thanks Derek, thanks...