Obama Proposes Bank Fee to Recoup Bailout Costs
President Obama has
Obama Administration
House Sustains Obama Veto of CR; Budgeteers Yawn
The House voted Wednesday to sustain President Obama's veto of a Continuing Resolution to keep the government funded. Huh? Confused? Why wasn't this...
Obama Said to Support Tax on Health Insurance
According to the Associated Press, President Obama has encour
Tough Challenge Facing Obama Administration in Last Days of Budget Deliberations
Today’s New York Times article on the difficulty President Obama faces in keeping his promise about deficit reduction and tax cuts,
What Happened to the President's Spending Cuts?
Yesterday, on the heels of President Obama signing a $1.1 trillion "minibus" CRFB released a paper on the importance of controlling...
Dec 18, 2009 | Blog Paper Press Release
Our New Year's Wish: Political Will
Congress will leave town for the holidays without completing some serious fiscal business, but with a full agenda for next year.
Fiscal Recovery Plan in the FY 2011 Budget?
There's an intriguing passage in
Dec 8, 2009 | Blog Paper Press Release
Obama Puts Forth Jobs Plan
Today, in a speech at the Brookings Institution, President Obama outlined a
Freezing Discretionary Spending...
UPDATE: Stan Collender thinks we might be making ice mountains out of snow hills.According to a number of news reports, President Obama has begun...
A Really Big Deficit
The message from the end of the year deficit number is clear: we must start planning