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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

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

October 1, 2013, Darrell M. West

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

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

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September 19, 2013, Elaine Kamarck

By Dropping Syria In Congress's Lap, Obama Creates The Worst Of The Bad Old Days

September 6, 2013, Bill Frenzel

Alice Rivlin: In Debt Ceiling Debate, Syria Might Be the Difference This Time

September 5, 2013, Fred Dews

The Congress ought to get serious. They need to raise the debt ceiling so we don’t have this ridiculous counterproductive argument again.

September 5, 2013, Alice M. Rivlin, Bloomberg

Borrowing To Invest Easily Trumps Borrowing To Spend

August 20, 2013, Richard V. Reeves

Economic Forecasts Are Bad, Budget Forecasts Delusional

August 7, 2013, Henry J. Aaron

Dissecting the Pentagon’s Strategic Choices and Management Review

August 6, 2013

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Congress and the President Should Compromise on the Budget

August 5, 2013, Michael E. O'Hanlon and David Petraeus

Grand Budget Bargain? No, Congress Would Prefer To Fight

July 8, 2013, Bill Frenzel

The American Economic Recovery and the Defense Industry

July 2, 2013

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Compromise: The Missing Policy Ingredient Amid Dysfunctional Budgeting

June 26, 2013, Bill Frenzel

Hey, Where Did Our Economy-Threatening Fiscal Crisis Run Off To?

June 12, 2013, Bill Frenzel

Extending Lower Student-Loan Interest Rates Is Not the Answer

June 11, 2013, Robert Gordon