Papers
View our recurring reports, which summarize and analyze the most important regular federal budget releases and reports.
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Op-Ed: Parties Should Stop Talking Past Each Other and Fix the Debt
The Hill | April 10, 2013 When it comes to the federal budget standoff, those looking for a breakthrough are caught between a rock and a hard place...
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Op-Ed: The Tax Code Is A Hopeless, Complex, Economy-Suffocating Mess
Brookings | April 4, 2013 Throughout our population, experts and non-experts alike, the verdict is nearly unanimous. The U.S. tax code is a hopelessly...
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Op-Ed: Why 'Chained CPI' Works for Social Security
Los Angeles Times | April 2, 2013 In his March 22 blog post criticizing proposals to switch from the consumer price index to "chained CPI" to...
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Op-Ed: A Fiscal Deal or a Fiscal Crisis?
Politico | April 1, 2013 Now that Congress and the president have agreed to fund the government for the rest of this fiscal year — removing the threat...
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Op-Ed: Short-Term Congressional Budget Fixes Only Prevent Total Disaster
Forbes | March 28, 2013 In a pleasantly surprising move, the normally moribund Congress passed a Continuing Resolution (CR) to fund the government for...
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Op-Ed: Time to Get Serious About Fixing the Debt
The Cincinnati Enquirer | March 25, 2013 Ohio’s congressional delegation must get serious about fixing the debt. In this time of serial self-inflicted...
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Testimony at Joint Economic Committee
The two goals reinforce each other and neither can be achieved without the other. Weak economic growth—or worse, sliding back into recession—will...
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Measuring Up: The Case for the Chained CPI
This report was originally published 05/11/2011 and has been updated on 12/12/2012.
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Op-Ed: Debt Deal We Need is in Reach
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...
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Op-Ed: Sequester Isn't Enough
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...
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Op-Ed: The Sequester and Fiscal Policy
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...