Deficit hawks have long warned that unnecessary delays in deficit reduction carry risks and high costs that will ...
On Tuesday, Dec. 7, President Obama announced that he had reached agreement with congressional Republican leaders on a ...
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) now projects that the cost of the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) will ...
By now we've seen a number of proposals for fiscal sustainability from groups with very different perspectives. By now ...
The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) recently released projections showing that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac could ...
The Social Security Administration announced on Friday that for the second year in a row there would be ...
The government wrapped up Fiscal Year 2010 last week but let’s skip the champagne. The likely 2010 deficit ...
Fiscal Year 2010 ended last Thursday but no one was popping champagne corks. Little wonder. For the second ...
State and local governments face severe financial challenges that include slower economic growth, lagging tax revenues and rising ...
A rational debate about tax policy should include whether to let the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts expire, ...
The media is buzzing about how House Minority Leader John Boehner and President Obama might be ready to ...
How Congress reacts to the recommendations later this year from President Obama’s bipartisan fiscal commission will be important ...