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Presentation by Doug Elmendorf, CBO Director, at the Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy at the Brookings Institution.
- Blog Post
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.
- Report
In certain reports and for some major pieces of legislation, CBO analyzes the short- and longer-term effects on the overall economy of changes in federal tax and spending policies. This report explains the methods that CBO uses.
- Report
This document compares the characteristics of the long-term unemployed in March 2007 and March 2014, supplementing and updating information provided in CBO’s Understanding and Responding to Persistently High Unemployment.
- Report
In July, the House Budget Committee convened a hearing at which CBO's Director testified about the long-term budget outlook. Some Members of the Committee submitted further questions for the record, and this document provides CBO’s answers.
- Report
Loan guarantees made in the FHA's single-family mortgage program between 1992 and 2013 are now projected to generate small costs over their lifetimes rather than the significant savings that were originally recorded in the federal budget.
- Presentation
Presentation by Doug Elmendorf, CBO Director, at Cornell University
- Presentation
Presentation by Doug Elmendorf, CBO Director, at the Macroeconomic Advisers’ 24th Annual Washington Policy Seminar
- Blog Post
CBO projects that interest payments on the federal debt will more than triple under current law over the next decade. What accounts for that large increase?
- Blog Post
Conditions in the labor market have improved notably in recent quarters, but a significant amount of slack in the economy remains. CBO projects that ongoing gains in employment over the next few years will largely eliminate that slack.