Joe Firestone
Joe's Voice
- May 23, 2012 - 1:16am
An issue at the core of all the fuss about fiscal sustainability is Government solvency. The deficit hawks and doves believe that Governments sovereign in their own currency can run out of money if they keep deficit spending, and keep borrowing to do it.
- May 16, 2012 - 6:59pm
One of the most irritating things about the deficit hawk/austerity literature, is that it uses the ideas of “fiscal sustainability” and “fiscal responsibility” in an ideological way, without ever really analyzing or explaining these labels.
- May 11, 2012 - 1:18am
Well, it's Springtime in DC. Time for the Peter G. Peterson Foundation's annual event.
- April 25, 2012 - 1:41am
It's a trope with our politicians, including the President, his likely Republican opponent Mitt Romney, and an emerging third party candidate over at Americans Elect and NoLabels, Pete Peterson's long-time Sancho Panza, David Walk
- April 22, 2012 - 10:12pm
Well, the legislation implementing “The Buffett Rule” has been voted down in Congress as we all knew it would be. But so what?
- April 14, 2012 - 9:14pm
A few days back, the President had some remarks on taxes, fairness, "The Buffett Rule," “fiscal responsibility,” and making real choices with real consequences.
- April 12, 2012 - 4:06pm
During the past few months the results of polling suggest that Barack Obama will be re-elected. But they also show that his support is shallow and could be shaken easily by an economic downturn during the next 6 months.
- April 11, 2012 - 2:35am
In my last post, I discussed the first part of Beowulf's post entitled: “(MMT − JG) + Medicare for All = MMT,” and also some dialogues between Jamie Galbraith and both TomThumb and Beowulf related to the MMT Job Guarantee at
April 10, 2012 - 2:54pmA few days ago my friend Beowulf decided to exercise his wry sense of humor with this title of a post he offered for our consideration: “(MMT − JG) + Medicare for All = MMT.” Beo then goes on to talk about some details of a comment exchange with Jamie Galbraith at
April 8, 2012 - 11:53pmIt's hard to listen to the doomsday rhetoric of Austerians like Paul Ryan and intermittently the less hysterical, but equally mythical narratives of the President when he talks about deficit/debt reduction, when you know better; when you know
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