Economic Crisis

The California Economic Crisis
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Is Government Making it Worse? The Evidence Says No
I appreciate Ewan’s response to my last post on how recessions are like fires that must be put out. But his post has left me confused, and—I’m sorry to say—more convinced that ideological opponents to fiscal...
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A Primer on Our Burning Economy
The criticism of the stimulus package has revealed something that many of us in the policy world often suspected—most people still don’t understand recessions. Sure, they understand what they are. After all, they are...
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Social Security Reform Requires Political Will
Yesterday, the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget released its analysis on the Social Security Trustees report. As in past years, the report shows that population aging and the mass retirement of the baby boomers ...
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