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Debt Dispatch: The Best and Worst of 2024
DOGE Recommendations: Social Security
Debt Digest | Cut Spending to Boost Growth
Q&A with House Budget Committee Members
Congress Should Reject a Blockbuster Christmas Stopgap Measure
DOGE Recommendations: Emergency Spending
Debt Digest | How DOGE could cut $2 trillion
Pathways and Possible Solutions to the US Fiscal Crisis: Testimony
TODAY: My Testimony Before the House Budget Committee at 10:00 AM ET
Debt Digest | Treasury Nominee Bessent: We Have a Spending Problem
Debt Digest | Debt, Inflation, and Voter Backlash
Debt Digest | Inflation (And Modern Monetary Theory) Lost Democrats the Election
With a BRAC-like Structure DOGE Can Succeed Where Other Commissions Have Failed
Debt Digest | Early Action Will Define the New Administration’s Success
Time to Face the Facts about Social Security
Debt Digest | 10 Programs the Musk-Ramaswamy DOGE Should Cut
Rethinking Disaster Aid: Promoting Fiscal Responsibility and Risk Management
Debt Digest | Trump’s Playbook for Winning the Fiscal Battles Ahead
Debt Digest | No Plan to Fix Social Security as Benefit Cuts Loom
Debt Digest | Americans Could Be in for a Rude Debt Awakening
Social Security is a Legal Ponzi Scheme
Debt Digest | The US Debt Crisis is a Global Problem
Simpson-Bowles 2.0 Won’t Cut It, A BRAC-like Commission Has More Teeth
Debt Digest | Interest Payments as a Share of Available Revenues to Reach Record Highs
Debt Digest | New Bipartisan Law Enhances the CBO’s Role as a Fiscal Watchdog
Controversial Social Security Benefit Increase Would Cost Taxpayers $196 Billion
Debt Digest | Avoiding a Shutdown by Setting Up a Christmas Spending Blowout
Debt Digest | Americans Will Bear the Cost of the Trump Tariffs
How “Temporary” Emergency Spending Bloats the Federal Budget for Years
Reining in Trillions of Executive Spending
Why Germany Should Preserve Its Debt Brake and the US Should Adopt One
Debt Digest | Healthcare is 'What’s Eating the Budget'
Fiscal Accountability and Enhancing the CBO’s Role in Preventing a US Debt Crisis
Debt Digest | US Healthcare Spending: More Money, Worse Results
Washington Post Global Social Security Comparison Misses the Forest for the Trees
Debt Digest | US Debt Servicing Costs Outpace Other Mature Market Economies
Debt Digest | Taking Too Much from the Young
5 Reasons Why Social Security Is an Income Transfer Program, and Not an ‘Earned Benefit’
Debt Digest | Kamala Harris Proposes Price Controls
Social Security at 89: Time to Retire the Old Benefit Formula
Two Years of Sounding the Alarm: Reflections and Progress on Addressing the US Debt Crisis
Debt Digest | US Healthcare is Far From Being a Free Market System
Debt Digest | Planless in Washington: The Social Security and Medicare Saga
House Budget Committee Seeks to Reform Emergency Spending as Senate Prepares to Raid Rainy Day Funds
Debt Digest | Central Bank Managers Worry About Global Debt Levels
US Workers Earning $60,070 Face $3,063 in Higher Taxes to Keep Social Security Solvent
Debt Digest | How to ‘Fix’ Medicare and Social Security Without Cutting ‘One Penny’
The Debt Delusion: Why Modern Monetary Theory is a Luxury Belief
Debt Digest | Questions for Fed Chair Powell
Social Security’s $4.1 Trillion Hidden Government Deficit
Debt Digest | The US Debt Crisis is a Bipartisan Problem
It's either Chaos or This Plan: Paul Ryan on my BRAC-Like Fiscal Commission Idea
CBO Update: Medicare and Social Security Are Key Drivers of Exploding Debt
Debt Digest | Cato Tax Plan Would Lower Taxes Without Adding to Deficits
Another CBO Report Warns of Debt Surging, As a Fiscal Crisis Brews
Debt Digest | Paul Ryan Warns: Debt Crisis Ahead
Debt Digest | Track and Offset Emergency Spending
Social Security Spending Adds to the National Debt
Debt Digest | Rising Debt Stifles Income Growth
A Jeffersonian Dinner on the Future of Social Security
Debt Digest | Social Security’s Finances Are Worse Than Reported
Will Economic Growth Be Short-Lived as Fiscal Challenges Abound?
Debt Digest | Government Intervention Leads to Higher Health Care Prices
Debt Digest | Americans Are In for Social Security Sticker Shock
Emergency Spending and the Erosion of Congressional Fiscal Norms
Debt Digest | TODAY: Senator Cassidy Will Give Opening Remarks at 9:15 AM ET
Fast Facts about Social Security
Fast Facts about Emergency Spending
Debt Digest | IMF Calls For Fiscal Restraint
May 3 Hill Event & Stop the Baseline Bloat Act
Debt Digest | Uncapping the Payroll Tax Won’t Save Social Security
WWII’s Impact: The Birth of Europe’s Extensive Welfare System
Debt Digest | A BRAC-like Fiscal Commission is a Political Solution to a Political Problem
Debt Digest | A Million Simulations Show That the US Debt Is on an Unsustainable Trajectory
The High Cost of War: Ukraine Aid Could Top $240 Billion
Debt Digest | Hundreds of Billions of Taxpayers’ Money is Squandered on Improper Payments
America in Debt: Remarks at the Coolidge Foundation Conference
Debt Digest | Senate Admits: Debt is a National Security Threat
Social Security Symposium: A Global Perspective | May 9, Washington, D.C. & Online
CBO Warns of Fiscal Crisis in Long-Term Budget Outlook
Medicare and Social Security Are Responsible for 100 Percent of US Unfunded Obligations
Debt Digest | Cast Your Vote in Cato’s Spending Madness Tournament
The Fiscal State of the Nation: Testimony
Debt Digest | Biden’s Harmful Tax Increases Won't Fix Medicare and Social Security
The Price of Short-Sightedness: Emergency Spending's $2 Trillion Interest Tab
Debt Digest | Government Deficits Threaten Market Stability
New Emergency Spending Would Cost $28-$41 Billion More Than Incomplete Budget Score Suggests
Debt Digest | Fiscal Reform Grows the Economy
Responding to Critiques of the Congressional Fiscal Commission
Debt Digest | Immigration Boosts Revenues
Social Security Pays Excessive Benefits to the Highest Income Earners: A UK Comparison
Debt Digest | Self-Defeating Politics
The CBO Budget and Economic Outlook: Debt Projected to Grow to Record Highs
Debt Digest | Erosion of Fiscal Principles
Seven Emergency Spending Reforms Congress Should Consider
Debt Digest | A Tale of Two Trust Funds
6 Reforms to Enhance Transparency and Fiscal Accountability through the Congressional Budget Office
House Budget Committee Advances Fiscal Commission to Address Government Spending and Debt
With $34 Trillion in Debt, House Budget Committee Debates the Fiscal Commission Act
Debt Digest | Fiscal Deterioration
Debt Digest | Honest Budgeting
Curbing Federal Emergency Spending: New Study Release