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Showing posts with label balanced budget. Show all posts
Showing posts with label balanced budget. Show all posts
Sunday, March 19, 2017

Reuters — White House to offer balanced budget plan by mid-May: Mulvaney

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A detailed version of President Donald Trump's budget to be released in May will lay out plans to eventually erase U.S. deficits, White...
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Friday, August 7, 2015

Kasich balanced the budget. So what?

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It's one thing for politicians to talk about turning around their state or municipality's finances, it's another to explain h...
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Friday, March 27, 2015

John T. Harvey — Why We Cannot Afford The Republican Budget

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Early this morning, the Senate approved a Republican-authored budget that features deep cuts in spending, no new taxes, and hopes of a bala...
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Wednesday, March 18, 2015

Statement of Mark Blyth Before the Committee on the Budget United States Senate Hearing on “The Benefits of a Balanced Budget”

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Video Statement of Mark Blyth Professor of Political Economy Brown University Before the Committee on the Budget United States Senate Heari...
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Saturday, March 14, 2015

Monday: the Debt Ceiling is back on.

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Well, the time is here. We've finally arrived. I've been talking about this since the midterm elections last November. Congress has ...
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Tuesday, March 10, 2015

Matias Vernengo — "The Question of Confidence" According to Marriner Eccles

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Great quote from Marinner Eccles. It's a keeper. Naked Keynesianism "The Question of Confidence" According to Marriner Ec...
Sunday, March 1, 2015

John T. Harvey — Why Balancing The Budget Means Economic Catastrophe

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... there are many–among both policy makers and the general public–who are convinced that one of our short-term priorities must be reducing...
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Monday, August 25, 2014

Peter Martin — How to Balance the Government Budget

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Government Deficit = Savings of the Private Domestic Sector + External Deficit ....   So, if government, in its wisdom (or folly?), do...
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Friday, October 18, 2013

Stephanie Kelton — How to Talk About Debt and Deficits: Don’t Think of an Elephant*

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Many economists (perhaps even those who agree with us) refuse to talk about the national debt and government deficits the way we do on this ...
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Thursday, October 17, 2013

John T. Harvey — Five Things The Shutdown Taught Us About Trying To Balance The Budget

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The government just underwent a reduction in spending for sixteen days. What did we learn about how that affects the economy? Forbes Five ...
Thursday, October 10, 2013

Michael Stephens — What Happens if We Don’t Raise the Debt Ceiling? A Stock-Flow Analysis

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What would that kind of radical austerity do to the economy? Michalis Nikiforos uses the Levy Institute’s macroeconomic model to estimate t...
Wednesday, October 9, 2013

Warren Mosler paints a dismal picture

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So given our current institutional structure, the answer is yes, if we balance the budget and leave it that way, the world as we know it is...
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Many in G.O.P. Offer Theory: Default Wouldn’t Be That Bad

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Disturbing report from the NYT via CNBC here . A surprisingly broad section of the Republican Party is convinced that a threat once taken...
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Friday, May 3, 2013

Erik Wasson — Conservative groups: Balanced budget plan is price for debt hike

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The Club for Growth and Heritage Action said that establishing a path to a balanced budget within 10 years will be their demand in the loom...
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Sunday, April 7, 2013

Ryan Grim — Chained CPI Only Acceptable As Part Of 'Balanced Package,' White House Says

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OMG. What's the superlative of moronic? The president's move makes him the first Democratic president to propose cutting Social S...
Sunday, January 6, 2013

Lars Syll — There must be discipline in the allocation of resources or you will have anarchistic chaos and inefficiency. And one of the functions of old fashioned religion was to scare people by sometimes what might be regarded as myths into behaving in a way that the long-run civilized life requires

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Paul Samuelson: "There must be discipline in the allocation of resources or you will have anarchistic chaos and inefficiency. And one o...
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Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Warren Mosler — Comments on the Current U.S. Budget Debate (1996)

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The assumptions underlying the current budget debate are erroneous. Historical analogies include “the earth is flat” and “the earth is the ...
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Thursday, September 6, 2012

Columbia U Restricting Public Access to William Vickrey Articles [that should be in the Public Domain]

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JSTOR, Springer Verlag & Columbia U all want $10-$40 each, to read ~20 year old William Vickrey articles. See this list at http://fin...
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Fiat Budgets are Extensions of Politics by Other Means

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commentary by Roger Erickson Tea party founder Michael Johns nailed things honestly back in 1997, when he spoke and published at Warren Mosl...
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Wednesday, September 5, 2012

David Dayen — The Problem With the Clinton Budget Surpluses

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FDL picks up on Joe Weisenthal and Stephanie Kelton, too. FireDogLake The Problem With the Clinton Budget Surpluses David Dayen (h/t Kevin F...
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