For the U.S. taxpayer, last weekend’s International Monetary Fund (IMF) meetings in Turkey were a reminder of the importance of global cooperation to...

The Urban Institute hosted an event today on The Financial and Economic Consequences of an Exploding Debt. Len Burman, Norman Ornstein, Mike Mussa...

Saturday marked the one-year anniversary of the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), established as part of the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act...

On Friday evening, the FDIC reported that it has taken over an additional three banks ( Southern Colorado National Bank, Jennings State Bank, and...

This weekend, there have been a number of editorials about fiscal and budget policy. Among them: USA Today argued for "patching" the estate tax next...

To those watching the economy as it enters into positive territory and the financial markets as they seemed to be getting into gear again, today’s...

According to Bloomberg News, the number of Social Security beneficiaries increased by 19 percent, or 2.6 million retired workers, in FY 2009. This...

The Senate Finance Committee wrapped up work today on the markup of their Health Care Reform legislation, America’s Healthy Future Act. After moving...

This week, the FDIC issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPR) to require insured banks to prepay premiums for Q4 2009 all the way through 2012. The...

Yesterday, the tax subgroup of the President's Economic Recovery Advisory Board (PERAB) met to discuss ideas for simplifying the tax code as part of...

Today marks the end of fiscal year 2009 (FY 2009), and to celebrate the occasion, the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget has put together a...

CRFB co-chair and former congressman Bill Frenzel answered questions on the U.S. budget deficit in a web chat today hosted by The Brookings...