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Biden Economic Policies and the Federal Reserve | C-SPAN
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The Fiscal Road Not Taken | The John Batchelor Show
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POLICY SPOTLIGHT: Why Federal Deficits Are Skyrocketing and How to Fix Them
The federal government is drowning in a sea of red ink, with deficits in the past two years—about $6 trillion between them—the
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To Prepare for Emergencies, Keep Fiscal Order | Creators
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Breaking the American Economy | Grant's Current Yield
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Our Economy Is a Delusion | The Problem with Jon Stewart
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Will We Go From Pandemic to Recession? | The New York Times
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No, the Fed Did Not Just Hike Interest Rates
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Should We Worry About Inflation? Not Yet
Rumors of an inevitable inflation crisis have been greatly exaggerated. Read more at The Hill.
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The Fiscal Cost of COVID-19
How has the COVID-19 pandemic affected state budgets? Using a quarterly panel of states between 1994 and 2019, we estimate how
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Multiplier Myths
This is the third in a series of three articles on the wrong way to reduce the growing federal debt. The first piece in this

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Forced savings and political malinvestment
Steven Horwitz’s book, Microfoundations and Macroeconomics has been at the center of the post-crisis revival of Austrian
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Decoding the Debates: Fugitive Notes on Federal Economic Policy
Dr. Charles Blahous, political economist and former senatorial adviser, presidential adviser, and Security and Medicare public

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Income Inequality and Automatic Stabilizers
David Beckworth: Our guest today is Heather Boushey. Heather is the Executive Director at the Washington Center for Equitable

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Four Lessons from the Latest Social Security Trustees’ Report
The Social Security trustees issued their annual report on the program’s financial condition earlier this year, along with their
