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Safety Net and Tax Extender Proposals Are Still Not Paid For
Read moreCBO 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...
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Will Congress Embrace Spending Restraints?
Read moreAs Congress debates hundreds of billion of dollars of new deficit-spending this week, they may also begin considering two proposals which can actually...
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‘Line’ Items: Getting Out of Town Edition
Read moreHeavy Congressional Workload Before Break – Congress has a busy week ahead before it leaves town for next week’s Memorial Day recess. Lawmakers want...
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Alan Blinder Joins the Announcement Effect Club, Calls for Social Security Reform
Read morePrinceton'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...
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Essay: Our Unsustainable Budget Situation
Read moreNIHCM Foundation | May 2010 Our Burgeoning Federal Debt There is little doubt that the United States is on an unsustainable budget path. Budget...
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Market Watch: More Spillover from Greece
Read moreThroughout the week, U.S. financial markets continued to be dominated by a global market “flight to quality” in response to perceived EU policy...
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First YouCut Winner Would Save $2.5 billion
Read moreLast 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...
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Glad You Like Stabilize the Debt! Help Us Make it Better
Read moreWe 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...
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Op-Ed: Could the U.S. End Up Like Greece?
Read moreCNN | May 20, 2010 Over the past month, we've watched from distant shores as Greece has plunged into a debt crisis. Mounting pressure from global...
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The Thrill of Victory…the Agony of Deficits
Read moreCongress may be dropping the budget ball, but CRFB doesn’t intend to – literally. We will be participating in the 2nd Annual Budgetball on the Mall...
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As Congress Sidesteps The Budget, You Can Step In
Read moreCRFB encourages you to check out our budget simulator: Stabilize the Debt! It's no secret that America's finances are a mess. The problem of our...
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Congress May Not Produce a Budget, But You Can
Read moreThe Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget today is launching its new “Stabilize the Debt” budget simulator to allow the public to get a better...