The federal budget consists of three broad categories: discretionary spending, mandatory spending, and interest payments on the public ...
Could you loan me ten dollars but just give me five? That way you’ll owe me five, I’ll ...
New federal budget projections paint an alarming picture of the need for Washington to set better priorities and ...
One of my Concord colleagues recently relayed the following "old joke" to me, remarking that a fiscal policy ...
Today we updated our "Plausible Baseline" to take into account the Congressional Budget Office (CBO)'s latest Budget and ...
Since Medicare will put far more pressure on the federal budget than Social Security will in the future, ...
Good news comes and goes rather quickly in the 2010 Medicare Trustees’ Report. It begins with the optimistic ...
Defense Secretary Robert Gates forged ahead this week with more cost-cutting and efficiency efforts at the Pentagon, providing ...
Returning briefly from its summer recess, the House of Representatives today approved a bill that would spend $26 ...
Social Security’s contribution to the overall fiscal gap over the coming decades is smaller than Medicare’s, as the program’s ...
If President Obama was looking for Congress to rubber-stamp his request for additional “emergency” funding for military operations ...
Lollipops became an unexpected point of contention as the President’s fiscal commission turned its attention to Social Security. ...
