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Federal Budget and Economy

What Can Obama Do to Fix the Economy?

August 9, 2011 –
With the U.S. economy spinning its wheels, demands are growing for President Obama to “do something.” But considering the nature of the slump and the...
Federal Budget and Economy

What the Stock Market Plunge Means for a Deficit Agreement

August 8, 2011 –
In some parallel universe, Congress and President Obama would respond to the stock market tumble, the S&P ratings downgrade, and growing public disgust at their...
Federal Budget and Economy

S&P's $2 Trillion Error

August 7, 2011 –
In the final hours before Friday’s historic downgrade, Standard & Poors gave Treasury an advance copy of its report. Amazingly, that report contained a $2...
Federal Budget and Economy

Five Things You Should Know About the S&P Downgrade

August 6, 2011 –
On Friday night, Standard and Poors announced that it was downgrading U.S. long-term sovereign debt from AAA to AA+ , the first such downgrade in...
Federal Budget and Economy

Ten Things You Should Know About the Debt Limit Deal

August 4, 2011 –
Now that we’ve had a few days to absorb the debt limit agreement signed by President Obama on Aug. 2, it might be useful to...
Federal Budget and Economy

Unfinished Business after the Debt Deal

August 3, 2011 –
Congress headed off for its summer vacation yesterday, exhausted after the protracted wrangling over the debt limit that ended with a whimper when President Obama...
Federal Budget and Economy

What Will the Debt Deal Mean for Tax Reform?

August 2, 2011 –
What will the debt deal mean for the future of tax reform? Sadly, nothing good. The budget agreement is, for tax reformers, a huge disappointment...
Federal Budget and Economy

The Budget Deal: A First, Wobbly Step

August 1, 2011 –
The new budget deal comes in two main parts. The first imposes cuts in discretionary spending of almost $1 trillion over the next decade. The...
Federal Budget and Economy

Unearned Interest in the Homebuyer Tax Credit

July 29, 2011 –
Taxpayers who took the 2008 tax credit for new homebuyers were unhappy when Congress made the credit much more generous in 2009 . People who...
Federal Budget and Economy

Required Reading for Budget Balancers: Bipartisan Solutions Available

July 28, 2011 –
Every morning I read essentially the same story in my newspaper– the national debt has hit the legal limit, and unless the debt ceiling is...
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Brief

The Tax Gap’s Many Shades of Gray (Brief)

Daniel Hemel, Janet Holtzblatt, Steven M. Rosenthal
February 22, 2022

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