{"id":37383,"date":"2017-02-23T04:00:09","date_gmt":"2017-02-23T09:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=37383"},"modified":"2017-02-22T12:22:09","modified_gmt":"2017-02-22T17:22:09","slug":"words-numbers-the-cbo-cant-count","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2017\/02\/23\/words-numbers-the-cbo-cant-count\/","title":{"rendered":"Words &#038; Numbers: The CBO Can&#8217;t Count"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XeFe098biwA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Published on 22 Feb 2017<\/p>\n<p>In this episode, Dr. Antony Davies, Professor of Economics of Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, and Dr. James R. Harrigan, Senior Research Fellow at Strata, in Logan, Utah discuss the way the Congressional Budget Office works, and outline its history of failure at accurately forecasting increases in the national debt.<\/p>\n<p>Find out more about the CBO and debt projections here:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/fee.org\/articles\/the-congressional-budget-office-cant-count\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/fee.org\/articles\/the-congressional-budget-office-cant-count<\/a><\/p>\n<p>here:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usnews.com\/opinion\/economic-intelligence\/articles\/2017-02-01\/the-cbo-federal-budget-predictions-are-dangerously-optimistic\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.usnews.com\/opinion\/economic-intelligence\/articles\/2017-02-01\/the-cbo-federal-budget-predictions-are-dangerously-optimistic<\/a><\/p>\n<p>and here:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/58a0810be4b0e172783a9daa\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/58a0810be4b0e172783a9daa<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Plus, check out this great 360 Video from Learn Liberty with Antony Daves that helps put the massive scale of the current US Federal debt into perspective: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ErUZjM16r1M\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ErUZjM16r1M<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And track the National Debt in real time here:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usdebtclock.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.usdebtclock.org\/<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published on 22 Feb 2017 In this episode, Dr. Antony Davies, Professor of Economics of Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, and Dr. James R. Harrigan, Senior Research Fellow at Strata, in Logan, Utah discuss the way the Congressional Budget Office works, and outline its history of failure at accurately forecasting increases in the national debt. Find [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,84,13],"tags":[698,71,165],"class_list":["post-37383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-government","category-usa","tag-congress","tag-debt","tag-inflation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-9IX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37383"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37384,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37383\/revisions\/37384"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}