The GOP and the Deficit

by Andrew Wolf In May 2010, the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget released an online Budget Simulator that puts users in control of stabilizing the debt (60% of GDP by 2018). They advertise “as Congress sidesteps budget, you can…

Categories: Economy, Politics

Economic Recovery and the Fed

by William Margeson In his book The Holy Grail of Macroeconomics: Lessons from Japan’s Great Recession, intended to inform economic policy in the wake of the Great Recession, economist Richard Koo writes:  “…the current recession is the result of the…

Categories: Domestic Policy, Economy