At yesterday's Peter G. Peterson Foundation Fiscal Summit, the Announcement Effect Club saw its membership bump up, yet again. During the second panel...

In an OMBlog today, OMB director Peter Orszag applauded the House's passage of the Improper Payments Elimination and Recovery Act. Improper payments...

Last week the Chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, Kent Conrad (D-ND), released his Democratic budget plan (see our analysis of the Chairman’s...

Concluding earlier this afternoon, the inaugural meeting of the President's National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform laid the...

In previous blogs, we have discussed how the three credit rating agencies have hinted that the United States needs to get its debt under control (see...

The President's National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform kicks off today with its first meeting to discuss the country's long-term...

Last week, the President said “my first priority is to figure out how can we reduce wasteful spending so that, you know, we have a baseline of the...

Here are the highlights from this weekend’s editorials on fiscal and budget policy: The Wall Street Journal criticized plans by Democrats to introduce...

Budget Resolution Drafted – The NFL isn’t the only entity that made key decisions for the future last week. On Thursday the Senate Budget Committee...

As of mid-day Friday, April 23, the yield curve looked steeper for the week (that is, interest rates rose on Treasury instruments at the longer end of...

This week, the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) released a short piece disputing the claim that the cost of the so-called “Doc-Fix” –...