Center for Effective Government presents side by side budget comparisons: Click image to see full-size PDF chart and analysis A larger image is also available (JPG format)…

…budget, which will have annual increases of only about 1 percent above inflation, according to Pentagon Comptroller Robert Hale. “Our goal would be to get forces and modernization to grow…

…and an increase in automatic payments for unemployment insurance and the like. According to a new IMF staff analysis, fully half of the large increase in budget deficits in major…

…Would Produce Large Deficits. The authors’ introduction: On August 25, both the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released updated budget projections. Some observers,…

by Bruce Webb In a previous post I highlighted the chapter of CBO’s Long-Term Budget Outlook that pertained to Social Security. But the Report goes beyond that and in fact…

…Director’s Blog page announcing the report release (with excerpt) Preliminary Analysis of the President’s Budget Our current assessment of economic developments indicates that: Although the economy is likely to continue…

2014 Long Term Budget Outlook (pdf 64pp) While we are still waiting on the 2014 Social Security Report we do have today the release of CBO’s annual Budget Outlook which…

…running for president on a claim to be exceptionally astute on business/economic/budget matters should have resisted the urge to put forward a budget proposal that bizarre and easily deconstructed by,…

The Ryan Roadmap was introduced and then dropped into obscurity as Republicans simply ignored it and appararantly its author, the House Budget Committee Ranking Member Paul Ryan. Well that was…

…through expectations. Recall Gagnon’s proposal to drive the prime mortgage rate to 3% by unlimited purchases of agency issued MBS for at least a year. Here the point is that…