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Fiscal Policy Hasn’t Been In Vogue Since 1953

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The Other Fiscal Cliff Resides In a Chart While running some queries on Google’s Ngram Viewer, a phrase-usage graphing tool searching over 5.2 million books in Google’s digital library, I came across a rather startling trend. When comparing the use of the terms “monetary policy” and “fiscal policy” I discovered that discussion of fiscal policy …

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Why Krugman and Stiglitz Are Wrong About Government Spending

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This is not the government spending of WWII By Holly A. Bell On October 23, 2012, the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET) hosted an economics discussion with Paul Krugman and Joseph Stiglitz. The moderator of the discussion asked the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences winning economists what the solution to our current recession …

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