Federal Debt and the Risk of a Fiscal Crisis
August 5, 2010pdf
Economic and Budget Issue Brief
The Long-Term Budget Outlook
August 5, 2010pdfadditional info
Trends in Federal Tax Revenues and Rates
December 2, 2010 pdfblog post
Testimony before the Committee on Finance, United States Senate
Report on the Troubled Asset Relief Program -- November 2010
November 29, 2010 pdfblog post
Preliminary Analysis of Rivlin-Ryan Health Care Proposal
November 17, 2010 pdf
Letter to the Honorable Paul Ryan
CBO's 2010 Long-Term Projections for Social Security: Additional Information
October 2010pdfadditional infoblog post
CBO has compiled historical statistics on federal debt held by the public reaching back to 1790, measured against the size of the economy that existed at the time. The resulting line graph first appeared in the agency’s December 2005 Long-Term Budget Outlook. The data on federal debt come from the Department of the Treasury and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, and the data on the gross domestic product come from a variety of sources, both private and governmental, as enumerated in the spreadsheet that CBO is providing. Most recently, in the July 2010 issue brief Federal Debt and the Risk of a Fiscal Crisis, the historical data were paired with projections showing two scenarios for the long term, through 2035.