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This report presents additional information about the long-term projections CBO made in July 2014 for Social Security’s revenues, outlays, and the distribution of benefits and taxes.
- Presentation
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
CBO periodically issues a compendium of options—this installment presents 79—to inform lawmakers about the budgetary effects of ways to reduce the deficit. The report has both interactive and printable formats.
- Report
The federal government influences innovation through two broad channels: spending and tax policies, and the legal and regulatory systems. Policymakers have a number of options for spurring additional innovation.
- Presentation
Presentation by Michael Simpson of CBO's Health, Retirement, and Long-Term Analysis Division to the 2014 Fall Research Conference of the Association of Public Policy and Management.
- Report
In June, CBO’s director testified before the House Financial Services Committee about CBO’s estimates of the cost of the credit programs of the Export-Import Bank. This document provides CBO’s answers to questions for the record.
- 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 Francesca Castelli, formerly of CBO; Gabriel Ehrlich, Damien Moore, and Jeffrey Perry, all of CBO, at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Blog Post
Last week Director Doug Elmendorf spoke at Macroeconomic Advisers’ Washington Policy Seminar and at Cornell University.