You have said before, Dr. Elmendorf, that health care is a very big part of our debt and deficit problem going out. Is that still true?
My belief is that solving that problem with cuts while in a recession has been proven by experience to be a failed strat...
If discussion of the debt and deficit is nothing more than a leverage point, a fulcrum to attack spending programs...
If you want to look at this as a serious debt and deficit problem... it drops the major part of the deficit reduction op...
we run a health care system in the United States that is grotesquely expensive per capita compared to any other industri...
climate change is a wise fiscal--focusing on climate change is a wise fiscal policy, as well as for other reasons.
we are proposing a mandatory toll charge of 14 percent on the roughly $2 trillion of earnings that are overseas and have...
from the political perspective, if you are a lobbyist for a big special interest and you go to the Appropriations Commit...
What are we going to do about the $1.2 trillion that goes out the back door of the tax code through loopholes?
I suspect we all agree that a school that is dealing with a population with a very high concentration of poverty has a r...
The testing has just run wild--to use their word--run wild in the classroom.