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Words & Numbers: The CBO Can't Count
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 out more about the CBO and debt projections here:
https://fee.org/articles/the-congressional-budget-office-cant-count
here:
http://www.usnews.com/opinion/economic-intelligence/articles/2017-02-01/the-cbo-federal-budget-predictions-are-dangerously-optimistic
and here:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/58a0810be4b0e172783a9daa
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: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErUZjM16r1M
And track the National Debt in real time here:
http://www.usdebtclock.org/
Find out more about the CBO and debt projections here:
https://fee.org/articles/the-congressional-budget-office-cant-count
here:
http://www.usnews.com/opinion/economic-intelligence/articles/2017-02-01/the-cbo-federal-budget-predictions-are-dangerously-optimistic
and here:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/58a0810be4b0e172783a9daa
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: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErUZjM16r1M
And track the National Debt in real time here:
http://www.usdebtclock.org/
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