…monetary policy won’t do the job and why we need fiscal policy to stimulate aggregate demand. ( I was going to try for more but injured my foot so am…

OMB Watch suggests looking at projections first for talk on fiscal responsibility. Hence instead of talking idealogy first, go for the numbers. It is not BDS to use this years…

…1965, the LBJ Council of Economic Advisors (you know – those KEYNESIANS) were warning the President that fiscal policy had become too stimulative and that unless he either cut spending…

…in their calls for greater fiscal restraint … But Republicans said the push to add the rules to the budget was a back-door effort to make it harder to extend…

…does chart real expenditures per capita over time. If our replacement governor is serious about fiscal responsibility, why is he suggesting a substantial increase in California’s borrowing? It is true…

…recent shows of fiscal discipline. Last month’s budget-cutting bill would save $50 billion over five years by imposing new fees on Medicaid recipients, trimming the food stamp rolls, squeezing student…

The President of Pakistan, Pervez Musharraf, could give the Bush administration some lessons in fiscal management, and in the unfortunate fact that facing reality sometimes means that you can not…

…– or Hooverian fiscal policy. Rather he was talking about long-run fiscal restraint. As I read the General Theory by Lord Keynes, recessions are not permanent features of the economy…

…over 10 years to compensate for the costs of Hurricane Katrina as lawmakers continue to struggle to develop a consensus on the fiscal approach to the disaster. Kevin Drum reads…

Bill Owens shows some fiscal leadership: Gov. Bill Owens, once touted in conservative Republican circles as presidential material, teamed with Democrats last spring in drawing up the proposals that will…