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Financial Report of U.S. Government
Read moreThe Treasury Department recently released its annual Financial Report of the U.S. Government, reporting on the budget deficit, net operating costs...
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What About Education Cuts?
Read moreDeficit Challenge suggestions continue to pour in. Recently, one commenter suggested we cancel all new Education programs proposed or started under...
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‘Line’ Items: A Lonely Road, Paying for Jobs
Read moreHighway to Nowhere – Sen. Jim Bunning (R-KY) has blocked a vote on temporarily extending unemployment and COBRA benefits, the Medicare “doc fix” as...
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The Ever-Growing Announcement Effect Club
Read moreEPI's Lawrence Mishel joined the Announcement Effect Club with an article co-written with David Walker (already a member) in Politico last week. In...
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Weekend Editorial Roundup
Read moreHere are the highlights from this weekend’s editorials on fiscal and budget policy: The New York Times chided Jim Bunning for holding up a bill that...
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“Painful, Unglamorous, and Indispensible Work of Fiscal Discipline”
Read moreThose were some of the words uttered by House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) today at the Brookings Institution as the latest political leader to...
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Bunning is Right on Unemployment: “We Should Pay For It”
Read moreLast night, Senator Jim Bunning blocked an effort to pass a one-month “extenders” bill by unanimous consent. The bill includes temporary extensions of...
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CBO/JCT Reports Roundup
Read moreA number of very interesting and relevant government reports came out the week of February 22, 2010.
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Obama Appoints Four More to the Deficit Commission
Read morePresident Obama has named his remaining appointees to the Commission, including David Cote (CEO for Honeywell International), Alice Rivlin (former CBO...
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So What Does "Current Policy" Look Like?
Read moreHere at CRFB, we love constructing baselines. Whenever CBO constructs its own budget baseline, in fact, we rush to adjust it. CBO's projections, as...
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IMF Paper Outlines Fiscal and Monetary Exit Strategies
Read moreThe IMF just recently released a new report, Exiting from Crisis Intervention Policies, arguing that as the crisis winds down, it is more important...
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President's Health Care Summit
Read moreThe President's effort to forge a bipartisan solution to health care reform at today's summit has just started and is televised on C-Span (click here...