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For immediate release: March 7, 2024 For more information: Chris Colligan -- 703-517-0378 -- 703-894-6222 -- [email protected] The economy is growing at a solid rate, unemployment remains low and inflation is coming down. These are all reasons to feel good…

We’ve all heard that if you put a frog in boiling water it will jump out, but if you put a frog in warm water and slowly turn up the heat it will stay put until boiled to death. That…

The Concord Coalition today noted a small reduction in federal budget deficits projected by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), but cautioned that the improvements are driven by lower projections of discretionary spending, which is subject to future annual appropriations–and the…

While appropriators haggled this week over how to fund the government before the next set of deadlines, the two chairmen of the tax writing committees in the House and Senate: Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR), Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee,…

On January 7, Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) and Democratic Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) announced key elements of a FY 2024 spending deal that would pave the way for appropriators in the House and Senate to begin…

The tax world is in a tizzy as the Supreme Court is set to consider a case that could fundamentally change the federal income tax code. Next week, the Court will hear oral arguments in Moore v. United States, a…

Last week, the yield on 10-year government securities briefly reached 5 percent for the first time since 2007.[1] This yield represents the interest rate investors will earn given the price they paid for securities in the secondary market. If yields…

While much of America was riveted by the Speaker’s race in the U.S. House of Representatives this past week, some important budget-related news slipped by with little notice. First, President Biden submitted to Congress not one, but TWO supplemental appropriations…