David Wessel, director of the Hutchins Center on Fiscal & Monetary Policy, offers a regular economic update for the Brookings Cafeteria Podcast. In this edition, Wessel discusses the problem of uncertain forecasts about the federal budget, and previews an upcoming event, The Long Run Outlook for the Federal Budget: Do We Know Enough to Worry? (December 15.)
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The Problem of Uncertain Federal Budget Forecasts
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