Today, the Social Security Trustees announced that for the second year in a row, there will be no additional cost-of-living-adjustment (COLA) for...

Change is in the air, but plenty of uncertainty remains. As of mid-morning, the dust is still settling in U.S. and global markets as they take stock...

Yesterday, 57 members of Congress sent a letter to the President’s Fiscal Commission advising the commission to put the defense budget under the...

For most, the world of inflation statistics can be mind-numbing. Economists have developed a variety of indices. And there are three different ones...

The 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...

Continuing 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...

They Did It! Kudos to the Esquire Budget Commission for releasing a budget plan this morning! Former Senators Gary Hart, Bill Bradley, Bob Packwood...

CRFB President Maya MacGuineas offers some options for handling the expiring tax cuts.

All 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...