As of mid-day Friday, April 30, the government bond market was on track to have a good week, with prices up (and therefore yields down, because they...

In an article today from Huffington Post, Hue and Cry, Former South Carolina Senator Fritz Hollings takes aim at organizations, experts, and...

On April 30, the Bureau of Economic Analysis released its first estimate of first quarter real GDP. Typically, the first estimate is revised a lot in...

Yesterday the Peterson Foundation hosted the Fiscal Summit: America's Crisis and a Way Forward, convening an all-star line-up of fiscal, economic, and...

The Blue Dog coalition is pushing for further spending cuts beyond what is in the President’s and Senate’s budget proposals.

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...