Nick Bunker — An update on U.S. household debt

Debt to income ratio falling.

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An update on U.S. household debt
Nick Bunker, Policy Research Associate

Steve Keen — 1937 Redux?

Of course I know that my argument, if it is heard by politicians at all, will fall on deaf ears – and that’s despite the fact that, for once, virtually all economists agree that government surpluses now would be a bad idea (though using very different arguments to mine).

It’s far easier for politicians to treat a nation’s accounts as no different than a household’s – and campaign about reducing government waste – than it is to comprehend the feedbacks that may cause fiscal consolidation to reduce aggregate demand by far more than it reduces the government deficit.

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