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Fiscal Conservatives

Cuts could increase the deficit

/ Economic Orthodoxy, Fiscal Conservatives, Fiscal Deficit, Government Borrowing, Public Spending, UK Financial Crisis, Unemployment

6th December, 2009 The Observer asked a small group of people to comment in advance of next Wednesday’s Pre-Budget Report. This from yours truly: “Public debt will rise higher if government slashes spending, and recovery will elude us. Unemployment has high costs, but productive government spending, unlike private spending, pays for itself by creating jobs […]

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Governments must spend away the debt

/ Central Banks, Debt, Fiscal Conservatives, Fiscal Deficit, Government Borrowing, Interest Rates, Public Spending, Uncategorized

25th November, 2009 Dear patient readers of this blog…please find below my latest Huff Post post. Some may wonder why I cheered when White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel announced that the president plans to cut the deficit, because he “does not want to keep on adding to the debt.” It’s no secret that

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