Stimulus

Fiscal theory update

Whew. The penultimate draft of The Fiscal Theory of the Price Level  is now done, and in the hands of the cop…

FTPL article

I wrote a short-ish article for the Journal of Economic Perspectives on Fiscal Theory of the Price Level. It…

Inflation speculation

I'm working madly to finish The Fiscal Theory of the Price Level . This is a draft of Chapter 21, on how …

What about Japan?

What about Japan? It's a question I often hear from advocates of fiscal expansion. Japan has huge debts a…

Infrastructure and jobs

William Gropper, Construction of the Dam, 1938 To many on the left, it's always 1933. Building "road…

Ip on Bidenomics

Greg Ip has a great column in the WSJ on Bidenomics.   It's not long, it's so well written that it…

r < g

r<g is an essay on the question whether r<g means the government can borrow and not worry about repayi…

The wages of stimulus

Discussing stimulus, a colleague passed along a factoid -- wages and salaries, he said,  are running $20 bi…

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