Oct 14, 2009 | Taxes
Congress pressured to extend tax credit for homebuyers
Today Congressional Quarterly reported that Congress is...
Blog
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.
Oct 13, 2009 | Health Care
Senate Finance Committee Passes Health Care Bill
The Senate Finance Committee ...
What About Cutting Spending?
In their oped in the Washington Post today, Henry Aaron and Isabel Sawhill argue that raising taxes will be necessary to close the fiscal gap and...
Weekend Editorial Roundup
Here are the highlights from this weekend’s editorials on fiscal and budget policy:In an editorial titled, “The Greatest...
Oct 9, 2009 | Taxes
Coalition Tries to Make a Stimulus Tax Break Permanent
Today, the Congressional Quarterly reported that a...
Oct 8, 2009 | Economics
IMF World Economic Outlook
The IMF has recently released its monthly World Economic Outlook, the IMF’s premier publication on the state and health of both the global...
Oct 8, 2009 | Economics
Point-Counterpoint: When should we start caring about debt?
On the heels of yesterday’s debate in the LA Times...
Oct 7, 2009 | Budgets & Projections
Cost of the Finance Committee Health Care Bill
Today the Congressional Budget released their analysis of the amended version of the America’s Healthy Future Act of 2009, the health care...
Oct 7, 2009
Debate on Necessity of Additional Stimulus
In response to high unemployment numbers, the Obama Administration is discussing the idea of a tax credit for employers that create new jobs....
Oct 6, 2009
Urban Institute Panelists Examine Exploding Debt
The Urban Institute hosted an event today on The Financial and Economic...
Oct 6, 2009 | Budgets & Projections
Memo for FY2011 Budget Preparation: Positive Effects from Preannouncing Deficit Reduction
Faced with massive debt burdens coming out of the economic and financial crisis – even before the retirement and health care tsunami hits...
Oct 6, 2009 | Taxes
The U.S. Taxpayer and the IMF
For the U.S. taxpayer, last weekend’s International Monetary Fund (IMF) meetings in Turkey were a reminder of the importance of global...
Oct 5, 2009 | Budgets & Projections
TARP -- One Year Later
Saturday marked the one-year anniversary of the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), established as part of the Emergency Economic Stabilization...
Oct 5, 2009
Three More FDIC Bank Closings
On Friday evening, the FDIC reported that it has taken over an additional three banks (...
Weekend Editorial Roundup
This weekend, there have been a number of editorials about fiscal and budget policy. Among them:USA Today...
Oct 2, 2009 | Economics
September Unemployment Rate and Uncertain Outlook
To those watching the economy as it enters into positive territory and the financial markets as they seemed to be getting...
Oct 2, 2009
This Week's Finance Committee Markup
The Senate Finance Committee wrapped up work today on the markup of their Health Care Reform legislation, America’s Healthy Future Act...
Social Security Beneficiaries Rise by 19%
According to Bloomberg News, the number of Social Security...
Oct 1, 2009
FDIC Proposes Banks Prepay Insurance Premiums
This week, the FDIC issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPR) to require insured banks to...
