Long-Term Budget Analysis
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CBO To Release Long-Term Budget Outlook on July 12
The 2016 Long-Term Budget Outlook will be available on CBO’s website at 10:00 a.m. on the day of release.
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Corrections to CBO’s Analysis of Replacement Rates for Social Security
After questions were raised by outside analysts, we identified some errors in one part of our report, CBO’s 2015 Long-Term Projections for Social Security: Additional Information, which was released on December 16, 2015.
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Recent Presentations on CBO’s Budget Projections
CBO Director Keith Hall spoke to the Board of Trustees for the Manufacturers Alliance for Productivity and Innovation about CBO’s latest long-term projections.
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Presentation on CBO’s Long-Term Budget Outlook
Director Keith Hall spoke to the Center for Strategic Tax Reform, highlighting the key points of CBO’s latest long-term budget projections.
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CBO Testifies on the Long-Term Budget Outlook
Director Keith Hall testified before the Senate Budget Committee on CBO's latest long-term projections for the budget.
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Communicating the Uncertainty of CBO's Estimates
At a conference organized by the Brookings Institution, Director Doug Elmendorf discussed the ways in which CBO quantifies uncertainty and why most of the agency’s estimates are presented as point values.
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Presentations About the Budget Outlook
Last week Director Doug Elmendorf spoke at Macroeconomic Advisers’ Washington Policy Seminar and at Cornell University.
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The Uncertainty of Long-Term Budget Projections
Even if future tax and spending policies match what is specified in current law, budgetary outcomes will undoubtedly differ from CBO’s projections because of unexpected changes in the economy, demographics, and other factors.
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Revisions to CBO's Projections of Federal Health Care Spending
After the release of The 2014 Long-Term Budget Outlook, a number of people asked for more information about how much CBO has revised projected federal health care spending during the past several years. This post answers their questions.
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How Would Various Fiscal Policies Affect Federal Debt and the Economy?
If tax and spending policies differed significantly from those specified in current law, budgetary and economic outcomes could differ substantially as well.