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Archive for the ‘Macroeconomic Policy’ Category
November 8th, 2010
Category: Diplomacy, Economics, Handbasket, world going to hell in, International Affairs, Macroeconomic Policy, Watching Conservatives
Robert Zoellic goes gold bug, and the strange US lock on the World Bank presidency.
November 8th, 2010
Category: Macroeconomic Policy
Sacrificing the real economy – where people earn incomes by providing goods and services that other people buy – to worries about fiscal balance is insanity. We’re not “living beyond our means”: we have the capacity to produce more than we now consume. The problem is the under-utilization of that capacity, and the solution is fiscal stimulus.
October 21st, 2010
Category: Macroeconomic Policy
Cutting public spending in a deep recession is folly.
September 10th, 2010
Category: Macroeconomic Policy
An infrastructure bank is a proposal no reasonable person could oppose; therefore Republicans will oppose it. But don’t despair; for every stupid Republican argument against it one can construct an equally stupid Democratic argument for it.
August 26th, 2010
Matt Bai thinks that Social Security is in trouble because he can’t tell the difference between playing the lottery and owning Treasury Bills. He’s an easy mark for spin doctors.
July 6th, 2010
Category: 2010 Democratic Agenda, Health Care, Macroeconomic Policy, Policy briefs, Public management, The Dysfunctional Senate
There’s an easy way to improve health care, improve the national economy, help out the states, and tell Mitch McConnell to stuff it. What could be bad?
January 25th, 2010
The Obama spending freeze sure looks idiotic at first glance. At second glance, let’s consider two words. (1) Baseline. (2) Logroll.
