Do We Need Another Stimulus?
Posted in Not So Fast! on 7 October 2009
Stats: 6 views and 1 Comment The New York Times editorial page has spoken: We need another “stimulus” or the economy will be moribund for the foreseeable future. On October 2 Paul Krugman declared: Yes, the Federal Reserve and the Obama administration have pulled us “back from the brink” — the title of a new paper by ...
Posted in Not So Fast! on 7 October 2009
Stats: 6 views and 1 Comment The New York Times editorial page has spoken: We need another “stimulus” or the economy will be moribund for the foreseeable future. On October 2 Paul Krugman declared: Yes, the Federal Reserve and the Obama administration have pulled us “back from the brink” — the title of a new paper by ...
The Stimulus Helped the Economy? Not So Fast!
Posted in Not So Fast! on 30 September 2009
Stats: 4 views and No Comments President Barack Obama, Ben Bernanke, and Paul Krugman claim the “stimulus” and other interventions have “pulled the economy from the brink.” And even that’s not enough, as Krugman notes in a recent New York Times blog post: In a rational political and policy environment, the implication of all this [the fading ...
Posted in Not So Fast! on 30 September 2009
Stats: 4 views and No Comments President Barack Obama, Ben Bernanke, and Paul Krugman claim the “stimulus” and other interventions have “pulled the economy from the brink.” And even that’s not enough, as Krugman notes in a recent New York Times blog post: In a rational political and policy environment, the implication of all this [the fading ...
Hangover Follows Stimulus Spending Spree
Posted in In brief on 21 September 2009
Stats: 1 views and No Comments "After a two-week binge to meet President Obama's 200-day goal, stimulus spending has plummeted once again - and the roller-coaster pace of spending has critics worried about how the money is being spent. "Throughout the summer, the administration had averaged about $4 billion in new spending obligations per week, but went ...
Posted in In brief on 21 September 2009
Stats: 1 views and No Comments "After a two-week binge to meet President Obama's 200-day goal, stimulus spending has plummeted once again - and the roller-coaster pace of spending has critics worried about how the money is being spent. "Throughout the summer, the administration had averaged about $4 billion in new spending obligations per week, but went ...
