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Tag Archives: Economic Policy
Reactions to Mankiw on the Long Run Budget Path
I agree with most of Greg Mankiw’s NYTimes piece on long-term debt to GDP but can’t overlook a glaring omission – he seems to ignore the fact that we are currently experiencing a major economic catastrophe. Here’s how Mankiw concludes: Military … Continue reading
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Tagged Brad Delong, debt, Debt to GDP, Economic Policy, Greg Mankiw, larry summers
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Krugman on UST Debt, Fed Purchases, & Interest Rates
Paul Krugman has a nice post challenging the sometimes accepted wisdom that the fed “gobbling up” massive amounts of UST is the primary reason for low rates. He makes three points: “As Bernanke stressed, long-term interest rates have moved very … Continue reading
Krugman & Bernanke on Capital Flows
Here’s Krugman’s op-ed on capital flows today: But the truth, hard as it may be for ideologues to accept, is that unrestricted movement of capital is looking more and more like a failed experiment. And here is Bernanke on capital … Continue reading
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Tagged Ben Bernanke, Capital Flows, Economic Policy, Paul Krugman
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Austerity and the Greek Depression
The NY Times has a nice feature that compares the Greek economy from 2007-2012 to that of the US from 1929-1934. Besides the disturbing similarity, the most notable feature of this figure is how different the government spending response has been. … Continue reading
Should the US be issuing more short-term debt?
As a follow up to yesterday’s post on short term debt, treasuries and financial crises, I wanted to highlight this paper by Greenwood, Hanson, & Stein that argues that the government should issue more short-term debt to discourage short-term money creation … Continue reading
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Tagged debt, Economic Policy, Jeremy Stein, Robin Greenwood, Sam Hanson, Treasuries, US Treasuries
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Short-term Debt, the Supply of US Treasuries, and Financial Crises
Annette Vissing-Jorgensen and Arvind Krishnamurthy have an interesting new paper that Annette presented at Berkeley yesterday. It’s a nice example of using a simple, tractable model to understand a very important issue – the demand for safe and liquid short-term … Continue reading
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Tagged Annette Vissing-Jorgensen, Arvind Krishnamurthy, debt, Deficits, Economic Policy, Finance, Macroeconomics, US Treasuries
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Labs of Democracy & Today’s Fiscal Policy Debates
Here’s my latest Economix column on the labs of democracy & today’s fiscal policy debates on uncertainty, spending, and spending vs taxes: Many of the fiercest disagreements about fiscal policy today stem from disagreements about the causes of the slow … Continue reading
What I’m Reading
Michael Lind’s Land of Promise, which David Leonhardt reviewed here.
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Tagged American History, books, David Leonhardt, Economic Policy, Michael Lind
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The White House on “Limiting Deductions: The Reality of the Math”
Here’s Jason Furman and Gene Sperling: In his Budget, the President proposes to raise $1.56 trillion in revenue from high-income households, including $1 trillion from the expiration of the Bush high-income and estate tax cuts and additional revenue from limiting tax … Continue reading
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Tagged Deductions, Economic Policy, Fiscal Cliff, Gene Sperling, inequality, Jason Furman, Math, Tax Expenditures, Tax Reform, Taxes, White House
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The Growing Burden of Payroll Taxes
Here’s a column on reforming the payroll tax that I wrote in NYTimes Economix today: Payroll taxes and corporate income taxes accounted for an equal share of federal tax revenue in 1969. By 2009, payroll taxes generated more than six times as much … Continue reading
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Tagged Baumol's cost, Corporate Income Tax, debt, Disability Insurance, Economic Policy, Fiscal Cliff, Healthcare, income taxes, inequality, Jobs, Medicare, Middle Class, NYTimes, Payroll tax, Progressivity, Revenue, skills, social insurance, social security, Stimulus, Tax Cuts for Whom, Tax Reform, Taxes, technology
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