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The federal government supports infrastructure investment in a variety of ways. It spends money directly, makes grants to state and local governments for their capital spending and, through the tax system, subsidizes the borrowing of both of those levels of government as well as certain private entities to finance infrastructure projects.
- Report
Letter to the Honorable Brian P. Bilbray
- Presentation
CBO Director Doug Elmendorf's presentation to the National Economists Club
- Report
Measuring the Effects of the Business Cycle on the Federal Budget: An Update
- Data and Technical Information
Details of CBO's Year-by-Year Forecast and Projections for Calendar Years 2009 to 2019 - August 2009
These spreadsheets reflect CBO's estimates, assumptions, and projections at the time the associated publication was released; that is, the spreadsheets are not continuously updated.
- Report
This volume is one of a series of reports on the state of the budget and the economy that CBO issues each year.
- Working Paper
We compare the performance of a subset of CBO's economic forecasts against that of an unrestricted vector autoregression (VAR) model.
- Report
CBO's Economic Forecasting Record: 2009 Update
- Blog Post
Today CBO released an evaluation of the accuracy of its economic forecasts by comparing those forecasts with the economys actual performance and with the projections of other forecasters. The study examines the two-year ahead forecast accuracy and the five-year ahead forecast accuracy for a variety of macroeconomic variables, such as real GDP, inflation, and interest rates. Thirty-two CBO forecasts, those made early each year from 1976 to 2007, are included in the study.
- Blog Post
Yesterday CBO released a preliminary analysis, conducted with the staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT), of H.R. 3200, the Americas Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009, as introduced by several House committees on July 14. Earlier this week, CBO released a preliminary report on the health insurance coverage provisions of the bill; this latest report added analysis of the other provisions.