Posts Tagged ‘debt’

John Cochrane’s “Unpleasant Fiscal Arithmetic”

Tuesday, March 15th, 2011

Can economic growth stop the coming fiscal inflation?

See my new Forbes column on the puzzling economic outlook and a new way to think about monetary policy . . . .

What not to do

Tuesday, December 16th, 2008

The Wall Street Journal documents Japan’s endless series of profligate pump-priming “stimuli” in the 1990s.

The experiment, predictably, failed.

Here’s Dan Mitchell with a critique that goes beyond Japan: