Outlook for the Budget and the Economy
- Blog Post
More from CBO’s Update of the Budget and Economic Outlook: Discretionary Spending
Last week CBO released its annual summer update of its budget and economic outlook.
- Report
Budget and Economic Outlook: An Update
At 8.5 percent of gross domestic product, the $1.3 trillion budget deficit that CBO projects for 2011 will be the third-largest shortfall in the past 65 years (exceeded only by the deficits of the preceding two years).
- Blog Post
CBO Releases Its Annual Summer Update of the Budget and Economic Outlook
The United States continues to face profound budgetary and economic challenges.
- Report
Estimated Impact of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act on Employment and Economic Output from April 2011 Through June 2011
Estimated Impact of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act on Employment and Economic Output from April 2011 Through June 2011.
- Working Paper
The Welfare Cost of Capital Taxation: An Asset Market Approach (Working Paper 2011-03)
Marika Santoro and Chao Wei
- Report
Response to Questions About the Effects of Government Spending on Economic Growth
Letter to the Honorable Tim Huelskamp
- Cost Estimate
CBO Analysis of August 1 Budget Control Act
Letter to the Honorable John Boehner and the Honorable Harry Reid
- Blog Post
CBO's Analysis of the Debt Ceiling Agreement
Last night President Obama and Congressional leaders reached an agreement on a measure that would reduce future budget deficits and raise the limit on the public debt in a series of steps.
- Report
Analysis of the Impact on the Deficit of the Budget Control Act of 2011 as Revised in the Senate
Letter to the Honorable Harry Reid
- Blog Post
CBO's Estimates of the Budgetary Effects of the Revised Deficit Reduction Plans
In a blog post on Wednesday, I discussed CBO’s analysis of plans to reduce future budget deficits put forward by House Speaker John Boehner and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid as part of proposals to raise the limit on the national debt