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Jun 8, 2021 | Blog Paper Press Release | Other Spending| Economics

COVID Relief Continues to Bolster Personal Income

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Jun 3, 2021 | Blog Paper Press Release | Budgets & Projections| Other Spending| Economics

Partial Student Debt Cancellation is Poor Economic Stimulus

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Feb 18, 2015 | Blog Paper Press Release | Budgets & Projections| Economics

Not Living Up to Potential: CBO Sheds Light On Its Economic Projections

As we've mentioned frequently, budget projections and economic forecasts are inextricably linked in determining both the nominal dollar budget...
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Jan 14, 2015 | Blog Paper Press Release | Economics

Milstein Symposium: Can Startups Save the American Dream?

Stronger economic growth is one possible way to reduce deficits, but it is often difficult to identify which policies produce the strongest growth...
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Dec 30, 2014 | Blog Paper Press Release | Health Care| Social Security| Other Spending| Economics

Top 14 Charts About the Budget in 2014

This year was an eventful one for the federal budget. To explain the year's events, CRFB wrote 427 blogs, 17 papers, and created more than a...
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Oct 28, 2014 | Blog Paper Press Release | Economics

Erskine Bowles: Urgency of Federal Deficit Remains

Erskine Bowles is a former co-chair of the Simpson-Bowles Fiscal Commission and member of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. He wrote an...
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Oct 21, 2014 | Blog Paper Press Release | Economics

Maya MacGuineas: Yes, the Deficit Is Smaller. But That Wasn’t the Main Problem.

Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, wrote a commentary that appeared in the Wall Street Journal Washington...
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Oct 3, 2014 | Blog Paper Press Release | Economics

Fed and Treasury 'rowing in opposite directions'

The Federal Reserve's efforts to help the economy recover through quantitative easing (QE), twisting , and tapering have made front page news without...
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Sep 19, 2014 | Blog Paper Press Release | Taxes| Economics

Deficit-Financed Tax Cuts May be Counterproductive

A new paper suggests that tax cuts that add to the deficit provide little boost to economic growth and may actually hinder it. Last week, the Tax...
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Sep 15, 2014 | Blog Paper Press Release | Budgets & Projections| Economics| Taxes

House Jobs Plan Doesn't Work for the Deficit

House Republicans plan to vote this week on a jobs package combining bills that would "build a robust economy and foster job creation."...
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Sep 9, 2014 | Blog Paper Press Release | Economics

What Happened to Interest Rates?

One of the biggest stories in CBO's August budget update was the huge downward revision to expected spending on interest to service the debt,...
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