In response to our sputtering economy, President Barack Obama presented a new stimulus package last week, hopefully titled the American Jobs Act. More than half of the plan’s $447 billion cost comes
American fiscal policy has been procyclical: Washington wasted the expansion period 2001–2007 by running budget deficits, but by 2011 had come to feel constrained by inherited debt to withdraw fiscal
The article focuses on the plan of U.S. President Barack Obama to test the pay-for-success approach as a financing model for social services.
Seven possible nominal variables are considered as candidates to be the anchor or target for monetary policy.
Novelists have a better track record than economists at foretelling the future.
All six Republicans on the debt-reduction super committee have signed a no-new-taxes pledge, and that means the panel can only dig up extra revenues if some of those six decide that eliminating some t
We identify employees at seven companies whose 401(k) investment choices are dominated because they are contributing less than the employer matching contribution threshold despite being vested in thei
Seven possible nominal variables are considered as candidates to be the anchor or target for monetary policy.
Dear Director, Congratulations! You and your team have been entrusted with the task of shaping and enforcing regulations for the consumer finance sector.
Fiscal policy is taking centre stage. Among advanced countries, the news is bad; Europe’s periphery teeters, the UK slashes, the US deadlocks, Japan muddles.
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