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Cost Estimate
October 20, 2016
As ordered reported by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on July 12, 2016
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Report
October 20, 2016
In this report, CBO analyzes a policy that would allow Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to increase their capital by reducing their payments to the government and discusses the effects that it would have on the budget and the mortgage market.
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Report
September 29, 2016
The United States has 14 preferential trade agreements with 20 of its trading partners. In CBO’s view, the consensus among economic studies is that, all told, such agreements have had small positive effects on the U.S. economy.
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Presentation
September 22, 2016
Presentation by Wendy Edelberg, an Associate Director for Economic Analysis at CBO, at the Seminar on Forecasting at George Washington University.
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Blog Post
September 13, 2016
On August 23, CBO released its most recent budget and economic projections. Because the Congress was out of session at that time, we thought we’d review those budget projections today.
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Cost Estimate
September 9, 2016
As reported by the Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship on May 24, 2016
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Report
September 9, 2016
Federal receipts and expenditures in the national income and product accounts (NIPAs) differ in certain ways from revenues and outlays as shown in the federal budget. This report presents CBO’s baseline projections using the NIPA framework.
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Blog Post
September 8, 2016
CBO compares its economic forecast, as presented in An Update to the Budget and Economic Outlook: 2016 to 2026, with historical experience and discusses why economic growth in coming years is projected to diverge from historical trends.
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Cost Estimate
September 8, 2016
As ordered reported by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on May 17, 2016
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Blog Post
September 7, 2016
CBO discusses several uncertainties in the outlook for the U.S. economy, as described in An Update to the Budget and Economic Outlook: 2016 to 2026.
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Cost Estimate
August 31, 2016
As ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs on October 7, 2015
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Cost Estimate
August 31, 2016
As ordered reported by the House Committee on Financial Services on June 16, 2016
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Cost Estimate
August 29, 2016
As ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs on October 7, 2015
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Report
August 23, 2016
The deficit under current law is projected to be larger this year, but smaller over the 2017–2026 period, than CBO projected in March. Since January, CBO has reduced its projections of GDP growth and interest rates over the coming decade.
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Cost Estimate
August 15, 2016
As ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation on June 29, 2016
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Cost Estimate
August 5, 2016
As reported by the Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship on May 24, 2016
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Working Paper
August 3, 2016
This working paper finds evidence for smaller short-term effects on output and employment from tax changes during times of higher unemployment.
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Blog Post
August 2, 2016
CBO published its 2016 Long-Term Budget Outlook in July, describing the agency’s projections of federal spending and revenues over the next 30 years. This blog post focuses on the projected growth of net interest costs.
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Report
August 2, 2016
The pensions of some 10 million people are insured by the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation’s multiemployer program. CBO projects future claims on the program and losses to its beneficiaries and analyzes potential policy changes.
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Presentation
July 29, 2016
This slide deck provides a quick overview of CBO’s report, The 2016 Long-Term Budget Outlook.
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Report
July 19, 2016
This glossary defines various budgetary and economic terms that are commonly used in reports produced by CBO.
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Presentation
July 19, 2016
Presentation by Robert Shackleton, an analyst in CBO’s Macroeconomic Analysis Division, at the NABE Foundation's 13th Annual Economic Measurement Seminar.
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Graphic
July 15, 2016
This infographic provides an overview of CBO’s report, The 2016 Long-Term Budget Outlook. Gain quick insight into why CBO projects a substantial imbalance in the federal budget beyond the next 10 years.
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Report
July 12, 2016
If current laws remained generally unchanged, the United States would face steadily increasing federal budget deficits and debt over the next 30 years—reaching the highest level of debt relative to GDP ever experienced in this country.
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Report
June 16, 2016
Federal investment in physical capital, education, and research and development boosts private-sector productivity gradually. The overall macroeconomic and budgetary effects of federal investment depend on how that spending is financed.
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Report
June 16, 2016
CBO describes the procedures it uses to develop a market-based estimate of the cost of new U.S. commitments to the International Monetary Fund that reflects the small risk that the IMF could incur large losses.
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Report
June 6, 2016
The President’s budget proposals would make U.S. output larger over the next decade than it would be under current law—mostly by changing immigration laws. The economic effects would affect the budget in ways that would reduce deficits.
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Cost Estimate
June 3, 2016
As ordered reported by the House Committee on Natural Resources on May 25, 2016
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Cost Estimate
May 18, 2016
As reported by the House Committee on Small Business on April 26, 2016
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Working Paper
May 18, 2016
This paper describes an approach to modeling U.S. production of energy from shale resources and the outlook for that production. Production is insensitive to the price of oil in the short run but quite responsive within two to three years.