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May 18, 2017 | Blog Paper Press Release | Economics

How Fast Can America Grow?

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Apr 18, 2017 | Blog Paper Press Release | Other Spending| Economics

Increasing Infrastructure Investment Must Be Paid For

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Jul 10, 2017 | Blog Paper Press Release | Economics

Judd Gregg: The Fed Leaps into the Unknown

Judd Gregg, a former Republican senator from New Hampshire, served as chairman of the Senate Budget Committee from 2005 to 2007 and...
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Jun 12, 2017 | Blog Paper Press Release | Economics

CRFB on NPR's Planet Money: How to Get 3% Growth

Achieving 3 percent sustained annual growth would be incredibly difficult, yet that assumption is embedded in President Trump’s proposed budget. In...
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May 26, 2017 | Blog Paper Press Release | Economics

Maya MacGuineas: Why is Trump's 3-percent growth target pure folly? Because math.

Maya MacGuineas is president of the nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and head of the Campaign to Fix the Debt. She recently...
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May 18, 2017 | Blog Paper Press Release | Economics

How Fast Can America Grow?

Official projections show real economic growth will average less than 2 percent annually over the next decade. However, some policymakers have...
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May 18, 2017 | Blog Paper Press Release | Economics

Policies to Grow the Economy

The aging of the population will make achieving past levels of economic growth much more difficult in the years ahead. The Congressional Budget...
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Apr 18, 2017 | Blog Paper Press Release | Other Spending| Economics

Increasing Infrastructure Investment Must Be Paid For

In a recent interview with The New York Times, President Trump said that he wants to invest $1 trillion in infrastructure because "we are borrowing...
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