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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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Director Doug Elmendorf recently participated in The Atlantic’s Economy Summit and spoke to the Prosperity Caucus on CBO’s outlook for the economy.
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Why was there such an unprecedented rise in the rate of long-term unemployment during and after the recession? What are some options for reducing that rate? CBO analyst Will Carrington discussed those issues during a recent presentation.
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The slow recovery of the labor market largely reflects slow growth in the demand for goods and services. Output will grow more rapidly in the next few years than it has recently but recovery in the labor market will take some time.
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How will the labor market evolve? How rapidly will potential and actual output grow? What will be the paths of inflation and interest rates? Director Doug Elmendorf addressed these and other questions about CBO's outlook for the economy.
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Director Doug Elmendorf spoke with a group of reporters who gather regularly at the invitation of the Christian Science Monitor. He opened with a discussion of the slow recovery of the labor market.