Feb 26, 2010 | Budgets & Projections
Obama Appoints Four More to the Deficit Commission
President Obama has named his remaining appointees to the Commission,...
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Welcome to our blog – The Bottom Line, where you’ll find up-to-date commentary and analysis on the most important news in the fiscal world. Below is a list of our blog posts.
Feb 25, 2010
IMF Paper Outlines Fiscal and Monetary Exit Strategies
The IMF just recently released a new report, Exiting from Crisis Intervention...
Feb 25, 2010 | Economics
Two Economists Join the Announcement Effect Club
In a blog post today on Voxeu.org, European economists Tim Besley and Andrew Scott joined...
Feb 25, 2010 | Health Care
President's Health Care Summit
The President's effort to forge a bipartisan solution to health care reform at today's summit has just started and is televised on C-Span (click...
Feb 24, 2010 | Budgets & Projections
Happy 35th Birthday CBO!!!
According to CBO Director Doug Elmendorf:CBO is celebrating its 35th birthday! The agency was created by the Congressional Budget and Impoundment...
CBO Scores Second Senate Jobs Bill
Today, Senate Majority leader Harry Reid introduced a second jobs bill, following the first...
Accounting for Fannie and Freddie
An editorial yesterday...
Herszenhorn Discusses Reconciliation For Health Care
Ever since Scott Brown's victory in Massachusetts, there has been a lot of talk about Democrats using budget reconciliation to pass a...
Feb 24, 2010 | Budgets & Projections
Democrats Named to Deficit Panel
A little less than a week after the President signed an...
Feb 23, 2010 | Taxes
Wyden and Gregg to the Rescue
Rescuing us from the disaster that is the U.S. tax code while reducing the federal debt will require nothing short of a superhuman feat; Senators...
Feb 23, 2010
The U.S. Needs a Fiscal Turnaround
The United States is not the first nation to face tough fiscal challenges. Other countries have faced similar fiscal challenges – and gotten...
Feb 23, 2010 | Taxes
Wyden and Gregg Release Tax Reform Proposal
Earlier today, Senators Judd Gregg (R-NH), and Ron Wyden (D-OR) released what they call...
Feb 23, 2010 | Health Care
Comparison of Health Care Reform Bills
Yesterday, the White House released its version of a health care reform bill to restart the debate on how to reform the country's health care...
Feb 23, 2010 | Health Care
Understanding the President's Health Reform Proposal
Yesterday, the White House released its version of a health care reform bill to restart the debate on how to reform the country's health care...
Feb 22, 2010
Four More FDIC Bank Takeovers
On Friday evening, the FDIC reported that it has taken over an additional four banks (...
‘Line’ Items: Tax Reform, the Fed, and Congress Back to Work
Commission Commencement – President Obama signed Thursday the...
Feb 22, 2010 | Budgets & Projections
Weekend Editorial Roundup
Here are the highlights from this weekend’s editorials on fiscal and budget policy:...
Feb 22, 2010 | Health Care
President Releases his Health Care Plan
Update: The Wonk Room has put together a short table comparing...
Feb 21, 2010
Conservatives Discuss Why Young Americans Should Care About the Debt at CPAC
Check out the video from WeCantPayThatTab.org:
Feb 19, 2010
Taking the Deficit Challenge by Cancelling Stimulus Spending...
A month ago, we called on those who oppose tax increases to take the...
