Stimulus Update
…of pork in the stimulus bill should go. Every additional tax cut should go. What should remain are the highest value public infrastructure projects, many of which the government has…
…of pork in the stimulus bill should go. Every additional tax cut should go. What should remain are the highest value public infrastructure projects, many of which the government has…
…borrow money and hire people—does not necessarily create any jobs…….In the long run, the existence of a strong infrastructure with highways that allow the transport of goods and services, can…
…the shaming conventional wisdom that they just had to work harder. What have they gotten for that? Vanished pensions, jobs and families, scanty social supports, crumbling infrastructure, and an international…
…(and may be negative) if the government spending is productive investment, like, you know infrastructure. Thanks Kevin Quinn too. So really the cases are down to case 1 and the…
…spend to create jobs through infrastructure programs and other efforts is likely to be used before the end of fiscal 2010. Let’s see, where to start. First, the CBO report…
…capital spending the capital stock is higher than it would be if the Government hadn’t invested in infrastructure. Fama’s conclusion is false if one assumes the classical model unless one…
…Tell me again why we need to be cautious in investing in domestic infrastructure. (Yes, I get that it’s incrementally larger. So was the Federal-Aid Highway Transportation Act of 1956….
…spending is definitionally no better (and likely worse) than spending the same amount on public infrastructure. ***I read PGL’s piece before seeing it in the links, but they’re all there….
…reconstruction, the economic reconstruction, social reconstruction, the development of building of infrastructure for that country. And I think that lack of planning, that idea that you can do this by…
…call for several hundreds of thousands troops to police, maintain infrastructure, and keep thing going in Iraq after the attack, taken from direct experience in the Balkan region. Welcome back…