Congressional Budget Office

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  House Passes SEC Cost-Benefit Bill

  By Melanie Waddell, AdvisorOne  |  May 17, 2013

  Planning groups are at odds over a bill that passed the House on Friday requiring the SEC to conduct more rigorous cost-benefit analyses before making rules.

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  FSI Backs Bill Requiring SEC Cost-Benefit Analysis

  By James J. Green, AdvisorOne  |  May 16, 2013

  H.R. 1062 would require SEC to conduct cost-benefit analyses before instituting rules. The White House opposes the measure.

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  Conservative Economist: Deficit Cutting Has Gone ‘Far Enough’

  By Gil Weinreich, AdvisorOne  |  April 24, 2013

  American Enterprise Institute budget expert John Makin argues that the U.S. is now—thanks to the sequester—on a sustainable fiscal path.

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  Retiree Entitlements ‘Undermine’ Everything Else: Robert Samuelson

  By John Sullivan, AdvisorOne  |  March 19, 2013

  Washington Post columnist Robert Samuelson took a scorched-earth approach on Monday to what he sees as out-of-control entitlement spending.

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  Paul Ryan’s Budget: Something for Everyone (to Criticize)

  By Melanie Waddell, AdvisorOne  |  March 13, 2013

  "The president promises big government and Ryan promises smaller big government,” a Cato Institute analyst says, while others say cuts are still too big.

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  Obama on Sequester: ‘No Smart Way’ to Cut $85 Billion in 7 Months

  By Melanie Waddell, AdvisorOne  |  February 26, 2013

  Meanwhile, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke said the cuts would cause a 0.6 percentage-point drag on growth this year, and Speaker Boehner said senators should "get off their ass" and pass a replacement.

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  How First Trust’s Wesbury Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Sequester

  By John Sullivan, AdvisorOne  |  February 25, 2013

  The outspoken chief economist of First Trust Advisors is taking Nouriel Roubini, Bill Gross and others head on in his view of the sequester in a new outlook.

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  Sequestration Cuts Imminent; Government Shutdown Looms

  By Melanie Waddell, AdvisorOne  |  February 25, 2013

  As the nation braced for the $85 billion in sequestration cuts to kick in on March 1, Joe Lieber of Washington Analysis laid out the “numerous tools available” to blunt sequestration’s impact.

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  Jeremy Grantham: Not as Much Stock Doom With GDP Gloom

  By John Sullivan, AdvisorOne  |  February 8, 2013

  In his quarterly letter, GMO’s chief market pessimist Jeremy Grantham reviews new data related to “likely lower GDP growth”—and presents a positive outlook.

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  Obama: GOP Holds Nation Hostage on Debt Ceiling

  By Gil Weinreich, AdvisorOne  |  January 14, 2013

  President Obama dispelled any doubt Monday as to whether the fiscal fight over government spending is going to be bare-knuckled.