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Continued Inflation Highlights Danger of More Deficits
The Federal Reserve’s preferred measure of inflation — the personal consumption expenditure (PCE) index — came in at 0.3 percent in January, twice the Federal Reserve’s implied target of 0.17 p ...
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“Current Policy Baseline” Gimmick Could Explode the Debt
Adopting a current policy baseline would therefore allow lawmakers to hide $3.4 trillion to $4.6 trillion of borrowing ...
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House Budget Passage Tees Up Trillions in Borrowing
The House of Representatives just voted to approve its Fiscal Year 2025 budget resolution, a vehicle to allow for budget reconciliation legislation that could pave the way for $2.8 trillion of ...
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Maya MacGuineas on Bloomberg TV's "Balance of Power"
Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget president Maya MacGuineas recently appeared on Bloomberg TV's "Balance of Power" with hosts Joe Mathieu and Kailey Leinz to discuss the House and Senate b ...
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Maya MacGuineas: The Drivers of our Debt and the Empty Rhetoric of Politics Today
Maya MacGuineas is president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. She recently wrote an opinion piece for the Ripon Forum, an excerpt of which is below. The nation’s fiscal situation is ...