Economic stimulus
The public sector is still hobbling the economy(55)
The election will determine whether a nasty dose of austerity can be avoided(29)
Low-hanging fruit: A good time for infrastructure investment
Don't expect it to happen, however(62)
A theory of fiscal policy: Self-sustaining stimulus
Larry Summers says fiscal stimulus can pay for itself(25)
The American economy: Unmired at last
America’s recovery is neither robust nor dramatic. But it is real(51)
Fiscal policy: The stimulus questions
All about fiscal policy(29)
Debating economic policy: Stimulus, austerity and the weltgeist
The backwash from the euro zone hits the American economic debate(181)
Russia's economic success and policy suggestions(28)
Lessons of the 1930s: There could be trouble ahead
In 2008 the world dodged a second Depression by avoiding the mistakes that led to the first. But there are further lessons to be learned for both Europe and America(122)
American municipal finances: The sewers of Jefferson County
The largest-ever municipal bankruptcy shows the strains on local finances(3)
Stimulus thinking: The swimming-pool analogy again
And why it's wrong(81)
Stimulus: Raising military spending increases output
Other forms of government spending are presumably similar(53)
Fiscal policy: Fiscal policy failure or failure to try fiscal policy?
A look back at the net impact of fiscal stimulus(30)
Solyndra and the White House: Letting sunlight in
Did the White House play fast and loose with public cash?(13)
The bond markets: The right or the wrong time to take risk?
The search for higher yield(12)
Green jobs stimulus: Solyndra and stimulus, again
If you're looking for where politicians included ideologically favoured programmes as stimulus even though the expert analysis was that they're ineffective, you need to be looking at tax cuts, not clean-energy loan guarantees(27)
The jobs plan: From deficits to jobs, and back
Republicans and the deficit stand in the way of a new stimulus package(55)
Obama's jobs speech: A call to action
With the economy and his presidency in the balance, President Obama urges Congress to pass a $447 billion stimulus package(124)
The role of government: Lending a hand
Policymakers can help create jobs, up to a point(7)
The White House needs to propose policies that actually tackle the country's massive unemployment and liquidity-trap problems, even if they can't pass(37)
In fiscal policymaking, what you don't know can kill you(101)
The world economy: Sticky patch or meltdown?
How politicians could carelessly turn a temporary softening of the global recovery into something worse(57)
Barack Obama and the Republicans: A beatable president
But only if a Republican candidate starts laying out a sensible plan for the American economy(170)
Deficit reduction: The non-mysteriousness of liberal support for deficit reduction
A short history of Democratic support for deficit reduction(27)
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