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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
CBO estimates that the development of shale resources will increase GDP by about two-thirds of 1 percent in 2020 and about 1 percent in 2040; the increases in GDP will lead to slightly larger percentage increases in federal revenues.
- 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.
- 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.
- Cost Estimate
As ordered reported by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on May 21, 2014
- 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.
- Presentation
Presentation by Wendy Edelberg, CBO’s Assistant Director for Macroeconomic Analysis, at the Peterson Institute for International Economics conference on Labor Market Slack: Assessing and Addressing in Real Time
- 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.