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The COVID-19 pandemic has focused attention on the nation’s health care system. Much of that attention has understandably been devoted to strategies for combating the virus, which has infected more than 11 million Americans, caused over 247,000 deaths, devastated the…

As an eager nation waits for state officials to certify results of the 2020 elections, Congress and the president (both this year’s and next) face a crowded agenda filled with urgent policy deadlines. While some political strategists predict continued gridlock,…

Last Friday we got the sad news that Coca-Cola would stop making TaB, its venerable diet cola that had been around since 1963. Ironically, that same day, we also got some news about a very different kind of tab. According…

Preliminary budgetary results for the 2020 fiscal year, which ended on September 30, have been released by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO). In the Monthly Budget Review for September, the CBO reports that the unofficial budget deficit for 2020 was…

President Trump stunned politicos, investors, business groups, the media, and ordinary Americans alike earlier this week when, by executive tweet, he suddenly and unexpectedly withdrew from negotiations on a second major COVID relief package after weeks of shuttle diplomacy with…

For too long now we have watched as the national discourse has taken a divisive turn. Bipartisanship is endangered, “compromise” a dirty word. This has made dealing with key challenges all the more difficult, including our nation’s unsustainable fiscal path. …

The first Friday of every month is affectionately known in political circles as “Jobs Friday.” It’s when the Bureau of Labor Statistics releases its Employment Situation Report – a comprehensive snapshot of labor market conditions in the previous month. These…

This week, the Congressional Budget Office released its much-anticipated update to the 2020 budget baseline. The previous installment from CBO was published in March 2020, just ahead of the COVID-19 outbreak in the United States, the subsequent economic fallout, and…