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CBO examines the falloff in entrepreneurship, its potential economic consequences, factors that have contributed to it, and ways that federal policies could be changed to reverse the trend.
- Cost Estimate
As cleared by the Congress on December 21, 2020
- Working Paper
CBO describes the methods that it uses to project interest rates.
- Report
The Senate Budget Committee convened a hearing at which Director Phillip Swagel testified about the 2020 Long-Term Budget Outlook. This document provides CBO’s answers to questions submitted for the record by four Members of the Committee.
- Report
CBO describes federal net interest outlays and their projected growth over the coming decade.
- Report
In its 2019 projections for fiscal year 2020, CBO underestimated revenues by 9 percent and outlays by 3 percent. CBO’s projection of the federal budget deficit in 2020 was more than the actual amount by 0.5 percent of GDP.
- Report
CBO periodically issues a compendium of policy options and their effects on the federal budget. This document provides estimates of the budgetary savings from 83 options that would decrease federal spending or increase federal revenues.
- Cost Estimate
As ordered reported by the House Committee on Financial Services on December 10, 2019
- Presentation
Presentation by Robert Arnold, a Unit Chief in CBO’s Macroeconomic Analysis Division, at the University of Michigan’s 68th Annual Economic Outlook Conference.
- Report
Between 1995 and 2017, the balance of outstanding federal student loan debt increased from $187 billion to $1.4 trillion (in 2017 dollars). CBO examines factors that contributed to that growth, including changes to student loan policies and how they affected borrowing and repayment.