Briefs

2008

• Increasing Transparency in the Pricing of Health Care Services and Pharmaceuticals
  June 5, 2008  html  pdf  blog
  Economic and Budget Issue Brief
• Accounting for Sources of Projected Growth in Federal Spending on Medicare and Medicaid
  May 29, 2008  html  pdf  blog
  Economic and Budget Issue Brief
• Growing Disparities in Life Expectancy
  April 17, 2008  html  pdf  blog

2007

• Assessing Pay and Benefits for Military Personnel
  August 15, 2007  html  pdf  
• Medicare Advantage: Private Health Plans in Medicare
  June 28, 2007  html  pdf  
• Explaining the Consumer Price Index
  June 20, 2007  html  pdf  
• Will the U.S. Current Account Have a Hard or Soft Landing?
  June 11, 2007  html  pdf  
• Trade-Offs in Allocating Allowances for CO2 Emissions
  April 25, 2007  html  pdf  

2006

• Is Social Security Progressive?
  December 15, 2006  pdf  
• Agricultural Trade Liberalization
  November 20, 2006  pdf  
• The Sustainable Growth Rate Formula for Setting Medicare's Physician Payment Rates
  September 7, 2006  pdf  

2005

• Analyzing the Economic and Budgetary Effects of a 10 Percent Cut in Income Tax Rates
  December 1, 2005  pdf  
• Why Does U.S. Investment Abroad Earn Higher Returns Than Foreign Investment in the United States?
  November 30, 2005  pdf  
• Long-Term Economic Effects of Chronically Large Federal Deficits
  October 13, 2005  pdf  
• Federal Funding for Homeland Security: An Update
  July 20, 2005  pdf  
• Recent Shifts in Financing the U.S. Current-Account Deficit
  July 12, 2005  pdf  
• What Is a Current-Law Economic Baseline?
  June 2, 2005  html  pdf  
• Third-Party Financing of Federal Projects
  June 1, 2005  html  pdf  
• Changes in Participation in Means-Tested Programs
  April 20, 2005  html  pdf  
• Limiting Carbon Dioxide Emissions: Prices Versus Caps
  March 15, 2005  html  pdf  
• Identifying Intergovernmental Mandates
  January 6, 2005  html  pdf  

2004

• How Pension Financing Affects Returns to Different Generations
  September 22, 2004  html  pdf  
• The Decline in the U.S. Current-Account Balance Since 1991
  August 6, 2004  html  pdf  
• Retirement Age and the Need for Saving
  May 12, 2004  html  pdf  
• Federal Funding for Homeland Security
  April 30, 2004  html  pdf  
• Would Prescription Drug Importation Reduce U.S. Drug Spending?
  April 29, 2004  html  pdf  
• The Alternative Minimum Tax
  April 15, 2004  html  pdf  
• The Retirement Prospects of the Baby Boomers
  March 18, 2004  html  pdf  
• Fuel Economy Standards Versus a Gasoline Tax
  March 9, 2004  html  pdf  
• Is the United States Falling Behind in Adopting Broadband?
  February 19, 2004  html  pdf  
• What Accounts for the Decline in Manufacturing Employment?
  February 18, 2004  html  pdf  
• Military Compensation: Balancing Cash and Noncash Benefits
  January 16, 2004  html  pdf  
• Limiting Tort Liability for Medical Malpractice
  January 8, 2004  html  pdf  

2003

• Measuring Changes to Social Security Benefits
  December 1, 2003  html  pdf  
• Issues in the Design of a Cap-and-Trade Program for Carbon Emissions
  November 25, 2003  html  pdf  
• Comparing Budgetary and Trust Fund Measures of the Outlook for Social Security and Medicare
  October 10, 2003  html  pdf  
• Growth in Medical Spending by the Department of Defense
  September 9, 2003  html  pdf  
• The Pros and Cons of Pursuing Free-Trade Agreements
  July 31, 2003  html  pdf  
• The Future Growth of Social Security: It's Not Just Society's Aging
  July 1, 2003  html  pdf  
• Acquiring Financial Assets to Fund Future Entitlements
  June 16, 2003  html  pdf  
• How Many People Lack Health Insurance and For How Long?
  May 12, 2003  html  pdf  
  Brief based on the CBO paper of the same title
  Related:
  • How Many People Lack Health Insurance and For How Long?
    May 2003  html  pdf  
• Addressing the Uncertain Prospect of Climate Change
  April 25, 2003  html  pdf  
• Transforming the Navy's Surface Combatant Force
  April 7, 2003  html  pdf  
• Social Security Reform: The Use of Private Securities and the Need for Economic Growth
  January 3, 2003  html  pdf  

2002

• Revenue Projections and the Stock Market
  December 20, 2002  html  pdf  
• The Impact of Social Security and Medicare on the Federal Budget
  November 14, 2002  html  pdf  
• The Impact of Trust Fund Programs on Federal Budget Surpluses and Deficits
  November 4, 2002  html  pdf  
• Federal Debt and the Commitments of Federal Trust Funds
  October 25, 2002  html  pdf  
• Capital Gains Taxes and Federal Revenues
  October 9, 2002  html  pdf  
• Where Did the Revenues Go?
  August 13, 2002  html  pdf  
• Social Security and the Federal Budget: The Necessity of Maintaining a Comprehensive Long-Range Perspective
  August 1, 2002  html  pdf  
• The Looming Budgetary Impact of Society's Aging
  July 3, 2002  html  pdf  
• A 125-Year Picture of the Federal Government's Share of the Economy, 1950 to 2075
  June 14, 2002  html  pdf