Nov 30, 2012
MY VIEW: Laura Tyson
Former Council of Economic Advisers Chair and CRFB Board Member Laura Tyson writes in The New York Times about the dual challenges of "Go Fast...
Blog | November 2012
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.
Nov 29, 2012 | Budgets & Projections
Drawing Lessons from the 1990 Federal Budget Deal
Back in the late 1980s and early 1990s, lawmakers faced a serious challenge with large budget deficits. Throughout the 1980s, many measures...
CBO: Federal Government Will Hit Debt Limit in February or March
With all the attention on the fiscal cliff looming only weeks away, the fact that the federal government will hit the debt ceiling in the next few...
Myth Buster: The Fiscal Cliff Spares the Poor
Some commentators have advocated for a position of going over the fiscal cliff to leverage a better compromise. Paul Krugman called for the recently...
TPC Releases Fiscal Cliff Tax Calculator
Yesterday, we discussed the myth that the poor would be spared by the fiscal cliff, with one of the reasons being the large tax increase at the end...
Nov 28, 2012
State Leaders Come to Washington to Urge Congress to Fix the Debt
Today, the Fix the Debt Campaign is having a major event at the Capitol with its many citizen leaders, urging Congress to replace the fiscal cliff...
Nov 27, 2012
Laura Tyson: Inside America's Tax Battle
Former Council of Economic Advisers Chair and CRFB Board Member Laura Tyson says that it has become clear that increased revenues are needed along...
Nov 27, 2012 | Budgets & Projections
Line Items: Leftovers Edition
Putting the Turkeys Behind Us – We hope everyone had a good holiday weekend! As we all recover from the annual turkey-induced coma, we are...
Nov 26, 2012 | Budgets & Projections
Myth Buster: Those Who Advocate for Deficit Reduction Should Love the Fiscal Cliff
In the first of our "Myth Buster" series this week, we take on the myth that those who advocate for deficit reduction should love the...
Washington Post Endorses Chained CPI
The Washington Post has joined the many supporters of using a more accurate measure of inflation, the chained CPI. We've written a paper before about...