Achieving a Sustainable Federal Budget (Audio)
Douglas W. Elmendorf, director of the Congressional Budget Office, discusses the effects of revenue increases and spending cuts on the ...
Speaker: Douglas W. Elmendorf, Director, Congressional Budget Office
Presider: Chrystia Freeland, Global Editor at Large, Thomson Reuters
October 20, 2011
Douglas W. Elmendorf, director of the Congressional Budget Office, discusses the effects of revenue increases and spending cuts on the projected budget deficit.
This meeting is part of the C. Peter McColough series on International Economics presented by the Corporate Program and the Maurice R. Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies.
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