Faceless Bureaucrat

Blogging on bureaucracy, organizations, USDA, agriculture programs, American history, the food movement, and other interests. Often contrarian, usually optimistic, sometimes didactic, occasionally funny, rarely wrong, always a nitpicker.

Showing posts with label deficit. Show all posts
Showing posts with label deficit. Show all posts
Saturday, April 01, 2023

Responsibility for Deficits

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 Kevin Drum had a post the other day showing the percentage of the nation's GDP devoted to the federal government.  It's roughly 2...
Saturday, February 06, 2021

Inflation Worries and the 1970s

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 The debate over the proper size of the Covid bill often gets into inflation--will a bigger federal debt cause greater inflation.  I've ...
Tuesday, October 20, 2020

The Two Sides of Low Interest Rates

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 In today's NYTimes Paul Krugman has an articl e arguing for big stimulus spending, partially justified by the very very low interest ra...
Wednesday, February 07, 2018

The Great Switcheroo: Republicans

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A quote: " Second, the Republican policy reversals are staggering: Members of Congress who once claimed to be committed to debt ...
Monday, February 05, 2018

Inflation and Rising Interest Rates

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After the events of 2008, as Congress passed the stimulus bill and the Obama administration took charge, conservative bloggers such as those...
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