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    CBO’s Long Term Outlook Sees Smaller GDP Growth and Lower Interest Rates

    The Congressional Budget Office released its annual 2015 Long Term Budget Outlook today, including the economic assumptions on which that outlook relies. Setting aside the report’s confirmation of rapid growth in federal spending and a daunting fiscal outlook, the report contains some noteworthy changes in economic assumptions that affect the future budget outlook. For starters,…
    Rachel Greszler
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    Why Are U.S. Interest Rates Falling? Thank the Chinese

    U.S. employment growth has recently accelerated, and the Federal Reserve is winding down its program of buying U.S. Treasuries with expectations of raising interest rates as soon as early next year. Yet the yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note has fallen from 3 percent at the end of 2013 to approximately 2.5 percent today….
    William T. Wilson
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