Bill Clinton’s Surplus: Not Something to Celebrate
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8LHjdgHFpc&w=560&h=315] This video is from Eric Tymoigne’
J.W. Mason on functional vs. conventional finance
By J.W. Mason, One pole of current debates about U.S. fiscal policy is occupied by the “functional finance” position—t
Dean Baker: The Old Debt and Entitlement Charade
By Dean Baker, The establishment is trying to pull a big one over on the public yet again. One of the designated topics for
New Paper by Tony Aspromourgos: Keynes, Public Debt and the Complex of Interest Rates
By Tony Aspromourgos, The role of public debt in Keynes’s economic policy thinking is a question of considerable inter
Mathew Forstater on Jobs, Money, Debt & Economic Common Sense
Binzagr Institute’s Vlog (video blog) series “Jobs, Money, Debt: Economic Common Sense” by Mathew Forstater, Resear
Dean Baker on the CBO & Reemergence of the Deficit Hawks
By Dean Baker, It is often said that in Washington, no bad idea stays dead for long. This is certainly true for the crazy pa