Experts from across the political spectrum warned of the harmful consequences of unsustainable budget policies at the Peter G. Peterson Foundation’s annual fiscal summit Wednesday in Washington. Those consequences include the risks of slower economic growth, lower living standards, inadequate…
In a bipartisan program on Capitol Hill last week, two fiscal experts pointed to several factors that are driving long-term federal borrowing and called for a renewed focus on deficit reduction. Alan Viard of the American Enterprise Institute and Joe…
The most notable cost-related changes in the health care system over the past decade have attacked some of the misaligned incentives in the system, and those efforts have helped slow health-care cost growth in recent years. (more…)
Military operations against the terrorist organization ISIS in Iraq and Syria have cost $7 billion, according to a recent Pentagon report. The report measured the cost of the campaign from its start in August 2014 until last month. Almost half…
