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CHAPTER TEN: Decision Making

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Annotated Links

There is a rich amount of information about the federal budget available on the web. An excellent place to start is the OMB website, http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/, which contains each year's budget as proposed by the president, voluminous supporting information, and historical tables to track the budget's long-term trends. Several databases can be downloaded from this website into spreadsheet programs, which makes analysis and charting easy.

The Congressional Budget Office's website, http://www.cbo.gov/, contains a wide variety of studies and analyses. In addition, its historical tables provide useful information, which often break down government spending and income differently than OMB's data-which often can be useful in considering long-term trends, especially for entitlement, discretionary, and uncontrollable spending.

The president's Council of Economic Advisers publishes analyses at http://www.whitehouse.gov/cea/, as does the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve at http://www.federalreserve.gov/.