That is all. FRB: Press Release–Federal Reserve issues FOMC statement–May 1, 2013. Cross-posted at Asymptosis….

…be cyclical rather than structural. That’s good news: it means policymakers, if they choose to, could use fiscal as well as monetary policy to bolster the recovery of the labor…

Paul Krugman, Dean Baker, Mark Thoma, (update: Jared Bernstein) and many others call for fiscal policy to boost employment and production. Their idea is to increase employment and labor’s power…

…households, but that is really fiscal policy. “But, asks Evans-Pritchard, what if the central bank simply gives households money? Well, that is, as he notes, really fiscal policy — it’s…

…Greece pose to the international community. The main challenge, of course, is to the Greek government itself, which must implement the fiscal and other measures contained in the agreement with…

…to its inability to devise a way to deal with fiscal imbalances among members of the Eurozone. Cohen compares the Eurozone’s institutional framework with that of the U.S., which adopted…

…the low government borrowing costs that make the case for fiscal 6/ expansion, whatever is going on with risk premiums — unless you have some way to sharply reduce those…

…Specifically, that is, it also means relentlessly apprising the public that Trump’s fiscal and regulatory policy proposals are standard Republican-Establishment fiscal and regulatory policy proposals. Paul Ryan stuff. You know;…

…should be. The other half? Illustrating that on his fiscal, economic, and regulatory policy agenda—all of it intricately related—Trump and Pence are exactly the same. It’s a Mercers/Kochs/Tea Party agenda….

…painful fiscal consolidation not been “required” of Japan ? Tell me about the painful fiscal consolidation of Iceland ? I hate to admit it, but Republican fiscal insanity in the…