Papers

The two goals reinforce each other and neither can be achieved without the other. Weak economic growth—or worse, sliding back into recession—will...

This report was originally published 05/11/2011 and has been updated on 12/12/2012.

The Hill | March 18, 2013 Robert Zoellick, the past head of the World Bank, is fond of telling the story of how the Foreign Minister of Australia said...

USA Today | March 13, 2013 Just as Republicans and Democrats are poised for the next battle to bring down deficits through their budget proposals, a...

New York Times | March 8, 2013 The sequester – the large, across-the-board cuts in federal government spending that began to take effect on March 1...

Forbes | February 26, 2013 Barring an unexpected breakthrough agreement between the Democratic Senate and the Republican House, the federal budget...

The Government We Deserve | February 20, 2013 In last week’s State of the Union speech, President Obama put great emphasis on expanding early...

US News & World Report | February 20, 2012 My old pal Erskine Bowles and I were deeply disappointed by the failure to reach agreement on a long-term...

CNN | February 16, 2013 This week the president faced the American people to talk about, among other things, the budget. He said the right things...

Politico | February 15, 2013 The continual fiscal brinkmanship of the past two years — in which policymakers go from crisis to crisis, avoiding...

Note: Paper has been updated from original posting to account for new estimate of previously enacted savings.