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A debate persists over the most effective form of stimulus and what role tax cuts should play. >
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Progressive Breakfast: Econ Recovery First, Deficit Reduction Later
LiberalOasis : The Blog —
... Are congressional Blue Dogs sharpening their hatchets? W. Post: “Congressional aides said one possibility would be a return to the stringent budget rules of the late-1980s, when overspending automatically triggered across-the-board cuts to federal programs, a process known as ‘sequestering.’”
EARLIER, Krugman warned: “in 1937-38 FDR was persuaded to do the “responsible” thing and cut back — and that’s what led to the bad year in 1938”
NYT reports on American Economic Assoc. conference, and realization that economic thinking atrophied under ...
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News Flash: Economists Agree
gregmankiw.blogspot.com 2/16/2009 — The recent debate over the stimulus bill has lead some observers to think that economists are hopelessly divided on issues of public policy. That is true regarding business cycle theory and, specifically, the virtues or defects of Keynesian economics. ...
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Economists against the stimulus
tigerhawk.blogspot.com 1/28/2009 — The Cato Institute has managed to find a pretty long list of economists (pdf) willing to put their names to a full-page ad in the New York Times and presumably other papers denouncing the stimulus bill. Well, somebody needs to make the point.
Economists, ideology, and stimulus
krugman.blogs.nytimes.com 1/19/2009 — Mark Thoma and Brad DeLong are both, in slightly different ways, perturbed by the state of debate over fiscal stimulus. So am I. This has not been one of the profession's finest hours.
There are certainly legitimate arguments against spending-based ...
Tax Cuts vs. Government Spending - Freakonomics Blog
freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com 2/10/2009 — As the Senate and the House look to reconcile competing stimulus plans, the big debate is whether to emphasize government spending or tax cuts. A new paper by the New York Fed’s Gauti Eggertsson argues that the risk of deflation should tilt the ...
Liberal Groups form Behemoth to Back Stimulus
briefingroom.thehill.com 12/18/2008 — Leading liberal groups–24 of them–formed a new coalition today to push for passage of an economic stimulus plan, pledging a massive effort that will include field events and an ad campaign. The group includes unions, healthcare action ...
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Article II, Section 2 of the United States Constitution grants the president "power to grant reprieves and pardons for offenses against the United States." With a stroke of his pen, the man in charge can make legal trouble disappear. As one might ...
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