Showing posts with label Fiscal policy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fiscal policy. Show all posts
Monday, April 5, 2021

5/4/21: The Coming Wave of Financial Repression

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  In a recent article for The Currency , I covered the topic of the forthcoming wave of financial repression, as Governments worldwide pursu...
Tuesday, May 26, 2020

26/5/20: Franco-German Eurobonds: A First Step on the Road to Federalism

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My recent article on the Franco-German proposal for Euro bonds for The Currency :  https://www.thecurrency.news/articles/17392/france-and-g...
Monday, May 27, 2019

27/5/19: Which part of the Federal spending poses a greater fiscal threat?

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An interesting chart via Cato on the number of Federal state aid programs in the U.S. The grand total of these programs in terms of ...
Friday, April 5, 2019

5/4/19: Does Government Debt Matter? The Reality of Fiscal Multipliers

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There has always been a lot of debate in economics about the effects of debt (especially sovereign debt) on growth and fiscal dynamics. An...
Tuesday, September 11, 2018

11/9/18: Slow Recoveries & Unemployment Traps: Hysteresis and/or Secular Stagnation

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The twin secular stagnations hypothesis (TSSH, first postulated on this blog) that combines supply-side (technological cyclicality) and de...
Tuesday, July 31, 2018

31/7/18: 65 years of profligacy and few more yet to come: U.S. Government Deficits

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The history and the future of the U.S. Federal Government deficits in one chart: Which shows, amongst other things, that The post-...
Friday, July 21, 2017

21/7/17: What Irish Civil Service is Good For?..

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Recently released data on 2011-2016 Irish Government financial metrics shows that despite all the reports concerning the adverse impact of...
Tuesday, June 13, 2017

13/6/17: Four Months of the Invisible Fiscal Discipline

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U.S Treasury latest figures (through May 2017) for Federal Government’s fiscal (I’m)balance are an interesting read this year for a number...
Wednesday, February 3, 2016

2/2/16: Irish Examiner on Electioneering and Fiscal Policy Space

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Irish Examiner article on fiscal policy space entertained by various political parties with a couple of comments of my own:  http://www.ir...
Monday, August 3, 2015

3/8/15: Secular Stagnation: Some [Still] Ask if It is Monetary or Technological...

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So, is "Secular Stagnation" a Monetary-Financial Problem or a Fundamental-Technological Problem? asks Brad DeLong in his post fo...
Monday, December 29, 2014

29/12/2014: Historical Evidence on the Size of Fiscal Adjustments

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A recent IMF paper looked at the historical precedents of large scale fiscal adjustments across advanced and emerging economies in the aft...
Thursday, October 24, 2013

24/10/2013: Fiscal Policy: To Bail Directly or Via Project Finance?

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New paper "Macro Fiscal Policy in Economic Unions: States as Agents" by Gerald Carlino, and Robert P. Inman (NBER Working Paper ...
Thursday, October 3, 2013

2/10/2013: Euro area sovereign crisis: predictable and reasonably priced?

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Can a model-based credit ratings system be used to predict future fiscal distress? Answer seems to be: yes. And have the fiscal downgra...
Wednesday, August 21, 2013

21/8/2013: Ireland's Potemkin Village (Knowledge) Economy

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This is an unedited version of my Sunday Times  article for August 18, 2013. This week two news items offered significant implications f...
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Saturday, July 21, 2012

21/7/2012: Sunday Times July 1, 2012 - Not a 'stimulus' again...

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An unedited version of my Sunday Times article from July 1. One of the points of contention in modern economics is th...