Outlook for the Budget and the Economy
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The Troubled Asset Relief Program
Today CBO released the third of its statutory reports on transactions undertaken as part of the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP).
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Estimate of the Budgetary Effects of the Senate-Passed Health Bill
CBO has just released an estimate of the budgetary effects of the health bill, H.R. 3590, that passed the Senate on December 24.
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Presentation on 'Fiscal Policy Choices' to the National Asociation for Business Economics
I spoke yesterday at the annual economic policy conference of the NABE, the National Association for Business Economics. The theme of the conference was The New Normal? Policy Choices After the Great Recession, and naturally I discussed fiscal policy choices.
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Presentations on the Budget and Economic Outlook
Last week I made presentations on the budget and economic outlook to both the Prosperity Caucus and the National Economists Club.
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CBO Testifies Before the Joint Economic Committee about Increasing Economic Growth and Employment in the Short Term
I testified this morning before the Joint Economic Committee about policies to increase economic growth and employment in 2010 and 2011. This hearing was originally scheduled for several weeks ago but then canceled because of the snow.
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Estimated Impact of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act on Employment and Economic Output
Under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA), also known as the economic stimulus package, certain recipients of funds appropriated in ARRA (most grant and loan recipients, contractors, and subcontractors) are required to report the number of jobs they created or retained with
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Visit to Morehouse College
Last week I had the opportunity to speak at Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia. David Poyer, an associate professor in the economics department at Morehouse, spent last summer working at CBO, and he asked if I would be interested in coming down to Morehouse sometime.
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CBO Testifies before the House and Senate Budget Committees on the Budget and Economic Outlook
I testified about CBO’s Budget and Economic Outlook to the House Budget Committee yesterday morning and to the Senate Budget Committee this morning. In both testimonies I highlighted several points from the Outlook:
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Preliminary Analysis of the House Democrats' Health Reform Proposal
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.