krugman.blogs.nytimes.com - 9/29/2009
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If we get real health care reform AND we get a sane political scene the long-term fiscal outlook is serious but not scary.
econlog.econlib.org - 10/1/2009
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econlog.econlib.org —
(October 1, 2009 08:40 AM, by Arnold Kling)
Most of these are links in posts by Mark...
Thoma. Richard Robb says that letting Lehman fail really did cause big problems. However, he concedes, There is plenty of room to debate the larger counterfactual: if ...
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Morning Commentary
krugman.blogs.nytimes.com - 9/29/2009
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krugman.blogs.nytimes.com —
I'm coming more and more to the conclusion
that the public debate over fiscal stimulus, which views...
it as an agonizing tradeoff between possible benefits now and certain costs later, is wildly off base.
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The true fiscal cost of stimulus
cbpp.org - 10/1/2009
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cbpp.org —
For a number of years, the Center on
Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) has projected the long-term...
path of federal spending, revenues, deficits, and debt if current policies remain unchanged. These projections have shown that deficits and debt will ...
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CBPP's Updated Long-Term Fiscal Deficit and Debt Projections
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The 4 percent solution - Paul Krugman
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Assume a Great Big, Gigantic Can Opener
EconomistMom.com —
... Paul was characterized by moderator Sarah Wartell (of CAP) as the “most optimistic” of the panelists, because of these arguments of his (quoting from his 9/28 blog post on “the 4 percent solution”, emphasis added): ...
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