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Today's Budget Impasse Is Much More Dangerous Than '95

October 7, 2013, Alice M. Rivlin

Shutting Down the Government Shutdown: The Discharge Petition in the House

October 4, 2013, Molly Jackman

Time to Compromise? How Republicans and Democrats View the Government Shutdown

October 3, 2013, William A. Galston

Metros Don't Shut Down: America's Metropolitan Areas Move Forward Amid Government Shutdown

October 3, 2013, David Jackson

History Rhymes on Debt Ceiling

October 2, 2013, Philip A. Wallach

Brookings Scholars on Government Shutdown Crisis

October 2, 2013, Fred Dews

Revisiting Sovereign Bankruptcy

October 2013

What Government Shutdown? Metros Open for Business

October 2, 2013, Bruce Katz

Save the Pandas! Don't Close Government Videos and Websites

October 1, 2013, Darrell M. West

Tax-Policy Procyclicality

October 1, 2013, Carlos A. Vegh and Guillermo Vuletin

GOP Overplays its Hand with Obamacare in the Government Shutdown of 2013

October 1, 2013, William A. Galston

Fiscal Myopia

September 30, 2013, Alan J. Auerbach and William G. Gale

The Federal Government Shutdown: A Marriage Of Bad Policy And Toxic Economics

September 30, 2013, Douglas J. Elliott

Wrapping Up the TARP: What Will Be Its Legacy?

September 30, 2013

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Sequestration, Political Settlement, and Effective Government

September 30, 2013, Philip A. Wallach

Our Outlaw President? Obama Should Ignore the Debt Ceiling

September 30, 2013, Henry J. Aaron

Alice Rivlin Was In Charge of the Last Government Shutdown. This is What She Saw.

September 27, 2013, Neil Irwin

It's Groundhog Day Over the Debt Ceiling

September 25, 2013, William G. Gale

Budget Priorities: Funding Shortfalls for Social Security and Medicare Not All That Dire

September 25, 2013, Henry J. Aaron

Economic Studies Experts On the Government Shutdown and Debt Ceiling Standoff

September 25, 2013, Isabel V. Sawhill, Henry J. Aaron, Gary Burtless, Douglas J. Elliott, Bill Frenzel, William G. Gale and Alice M. Rivlin

How Clinton Won the Government Shutdown Fight & Why Obama Will Too

September 25, 2013, Elaine Kamarck

Brookings Launches the Center for Effective Public Management

September 24, 2013

Obama-Bashing: Today’s Most Fashionable Pursuit

September 23, 2013, Marvin Kalb

Austerity and Growth Debate in the U.S. and Europe

September 19, 2013

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September 19, 2013, Elaine Kamarck