This paper proposes a measure of the distributional burden of servicing debt Using alternative assumptions about financing, we assess the distributional burden of the current level of government debt and the burden of future debt projected to accumulate under current law, current policy, and the...

This paper examines policies to index Social Security taxes or benefits to changes in the ratio of workers to beneficiaries, allowing for auto-correction for changing demographic factors.

This legislative analysis examines the arguments for and against reducing the COLAs for social security and other federal retirement and disability programs, with particular attention to the administration proposal and the policy that was passed by the Senate in May 1985. 

Few realize how bad the federal government's finances are, because most evaluations are based on what happened in the past--not what is likely to happen in the future.

The author concludes that fiscal policy is a more potent countercyclival tool than monetary policy under flexible exchange rates.

The immediacy of America's fiscal problems presents an opportunity to reform and renew one of the largest expenditures in the federal budget.

Social investing, by both the political left and right, frequently ends up hurting the very people--particularly the economically disadvantaged--that it is supposed to help.

This analysis compares the current tax system with one that would exempt the foreign dividends of American corporations from U.S. taxes.

Do saving incentives such as Individual Retirement Accounts stimulate new saving or merely reshuffle existing assets?

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have aggressively used their government support to achieve extraordinarily high profitability and domination of the residential mortgage market.