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The New York Times’ Big Deficit Numbers
The burden of the debt and the debt service is such a trivial part of this picture, it’s hard to believe serious people would waste their time on it.
Budget and National Debt
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If We Can Bail Out Wall Street, We Can Invest in Our Children
Unlike previous recovery policies, such as the Wall Street Bailout, a childcare policy would help reduce inequality and increase the welfare of children and a portion of the labor force that has too often been overlooked: mothers.
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The CEPR “It’s the Budget, Stupid” Budget Calculator — Because Size Matters
Almost no one has any sense of what’s big and what’s small in the budget because the numbers are standardly reported as millions, billions, or trillions, with no context whatsoever.
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New Tool Helps Reporters Put US Budget Numbers Into Perspective
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Debts, Deficits, and Patent Monopolies
At the most basic level, we have to understand that patent (and copyright) monopolies are a way the government pays for things it wants.
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Population Growth and the Which Way Is Up Problem in Economics
Instead of having too much demand, it looks like we will have too little demand. We will actually need the government to run large deficits to keep the economy close to full employment.
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Financial Transactions Taxes: The Perfect Way to Pay for Biden’s Infrastructure Package
The bottom line is that Biden’s investment plan addresses longstanding needs in the country … A financial transactions tax is a great place to look for some of the offset.
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Biden’s Education Proposals Sets Off Washington Post Orgy of Really Big Numbers
It is irresponsible to imply that these proposals involve some extraordinary commitment of resources. They do not.
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Tax Stock Returns: If Biden Really Wants to Close Corporate Income Tax Loopholes
Taxing stock returns is better than taxing corporate profits for the simple reason that it is completely transparent.
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Putting the Debt in Context
If we paid off the national debt, but left an economy in ruins and a devastated environment, we will not have done our children any favors.
