Deficits and debt
EPI’s work on federal fiscal policy analyzes revenues, spending and deficits, but always within the context of the overall economy. EPI believes that the federal budget is the embodiment of our nation’s priorities, but recognizes that the state of budget balance is simply a tool to meet larger economic goals, not an end-goal in itself.
All work on this topic
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Sequestration, detailed
May 17, 2013 | | Blog
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Dangerous targets: Why setting a specific deficit reduction target would worsen the economic and fiscal situation
April 30, 2013 | | Report
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Reinhart and Rogoff couldn’t justify austerity before it was debunked
April 30, 2013 | | Blog
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(Final?) Notes on the Reinhart/Rogoff saga
April 26, 2013 | | Blog
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How High Should Top Income Tax Rates Be? Getting the Fight Right
April 15, 2013 | | Blog
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Where’s the Change?
April 11, 2013 | | Commentary
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A review of the economic research on the effects of raising ordinary income tax rates: Higher revenue, unchanged growth, and uncertain but potentially large reductions in the growth of inequality
April 2, 2013 | | Report
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Time to end the reign of terror of scary upward-sloping graphs
March 28, 2013 | | Blog
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Senate Democratic budget overly focused on deficit reduction
March 26, 2013 | | Blog
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Sequestration was never about fiscal responsibility
February 28, 2013 | | Blog
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Obama and Abe should address currency manipulation and Japanese trade barriers
February 21, 2013 | | Blog
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What we read today
February 20, 2013 | Blog
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What we read today
February 12, 2013 | Blog
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What we read today
February 8, 2013 | Blog
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CBO report shows two vastly different baselines moving closer together
February 6, 2013 | | Blog
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The UK is showing us why austerity is dangerous, but are we paying attention?
February 5, 2013 | | Blog
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Debt stabilization does not require $1.4 trillion, $1.5 trillion, or any other single number
February 1, 2013 | | Blog
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What we read today
January 31, 2013 | Blog
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Today’s teachable GDP moment: Slower government spending => slower GDP growth
January 30, 2013 | | Blog
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When and what kind of deficit reduction matters most: The danger of aggressive 10-year deficit targets in the current budget debate
January 25, 2013 | | Blog
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What we read today
January 16, 2013 | Blog
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What we read today
January 10, 2013 | Blog
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With friends like these: The carbon tax edition
January 10, 2013 | | Blog
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The Bush tax cuts are here to stay
January 7, 2013 | | Blog
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At best, budget deal suggests decelerating anemic growth, labor market deterioration
January 3, 2013 | | Blog
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So the ‘fiscal cliff’ has been addressed. The next priority should be to address the fiscal cliff.
January 2, 2013 | | Blog
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Boehner’s ‘Plan B’ would result in an austerity-induced recession
December 21, 2012 | | Blog
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The 15 worst economic ideas of 2012
December 21, 2012 | | Blog
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Mitch Daniels, deficit peacock
January 24, 2012 | | Blog
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Big recession, big budget deficits
October 14, 2011 | | Blog
