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How worried should we be about the deficit?

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:30:00 +0000

There have been many posts on this topic lately, start with Paul Krugman and Brad DeLong if you need to catch up. Today I have a few simple points: 1. Even if "it is fine to borrow more" is the most likely scenario, it is not the only scenario. Let's take a page from ...

Lawrance G. Lux found this 11 days ago on marginalrevolution.com

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You can't cut the deficit without a bill that cuts the deficit

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 17:42:27 +0000

If a for-profit company had the same kind of accounting that the government has for this bill, the company's management would be in jail and the company would be indicted for accounting/securities fraud. "Not that long" isn't an accounting or legal term. The matching principle apparently doesn't ...

Capital Gains and Games found this 13 days ago on voices.washingtonpost.com

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Deficit hysteria

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:42:58 +0000

Isn't there something weird about a conventional wisdom that's at odds with market prices?

The Baseline Scenario found this 12 days ago on krugman.blogs.nytimes.com

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The dollar and the budget deficit

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 19:10:33 +0000

Fred Bergsten , 27 November 2009 Current US fiscal policy is likely to produce current account deficits rising to $1 trillion by 2015 and $3 trillion by 2025; net foreign debt would reach $15 trillion by 2020, taking the US’s foreign-debt-to-GDP ratio far beyond the threshold that normally ...

Paul Kedrosky's Infectious Greed found this 7 days ago on VoxEU.org

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