Feb 26, 2010
Bunning is Right on Unemployment: “We Should Pay For It”
Last night, Senator Jim Bunning blocked an effort to pass a one-month “extenders” bill by unanimous consent. The bill includes temporary...
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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 26, 2010 | Budgets & Projections
Obama Appoints Four More to the Deficit Commission
President Obama has named his remaining appointees to the Commission, including David Cote (CEO for Honeywell International), Alice Rivlin (former...
Feb 25, 2010
IMF Paper Outlines Fiscal and Monetary Exit Strategies
The IMF just recently released a new report, Exiting from Crisis Intervention Policies, arguing that as the crisis winds down, it is more important...
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 the Announcement Effect Club, stating that a switch to...
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 here...
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 $16 billion jobs bill (-$1.1 billion 11-year deficit...
Accounting for Fannie and Freddie
An editorial yesterday in the Wall Street Journal called on the Administration to support the reform of the two housing financing enterprises...
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 comprehensive...
Feb 24, 2010 | Budgets & Projections
Democrats Named to Deficit Panel
A little less than a week after the President signed an Executive Order establishing a National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, the...