Although the federal deficit is now dropping, members of Congress should heed Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke’s recent ...
Last Friday the Congressional Budget Office released its scoring of the President’s budget using CBO’s own baseline and ...
While Washington continues to struggle with its budget problems, state and local governments face growing fiscal challenges as ...
The new budget plan released recently by Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles once again demonstrates that it is ...
Annual inflation increases are an important part of many government programs, including Social Security. Inflation protection ...
Most plans to put the federal budget on a more sustainable path make a crucial assumption: That today’s ...
Most fiscal reform plans assume that younger workers will pay more of their own retirement costs than ...
President Obama is back home after a diplomatic mission to the Middle East in which he exhorted the ...
In his semiannual report to Congress on monetary policy last week, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke threw in ...
Unless Congress and President Obama reach agreement before Friday, about $85 billion in poorly designed spending cuts for ...
I. Introduction The annual Budget and Economic Outlook released on Feb. 5 by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) contained ...
President Obama signed legislation this week to suspend the federal debt limit until mid-May as Democrats and Republicans ...
