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Fiscal Policy

Fiscal Policy Hasn’t Been In Vogue Since 1953

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The Other Fiscal Cliff Resides In a Chart While running some queries on Google’s Ngram Viewer, a phrase-usage graphing tool searching over 5.2 million books in Google’s digital library, I came across a rather startling trend. When comparing the use of the terms “monetary policy” and “fiscal policy” I discovered that discussion of fiscal policy …

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Pushing Out Spending Cuts Might Have One Advantage

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Spending cuts and debt ceiling debate not necessarily as divisive By Holly A. Bell While I am skeptical of the current fiscal cliff deal’s ability to resolve the uncertainty that has been plaguing our economy, there might be one advantage to pushing sequestration out two months: Spending cuts and the debt ceiling might be a …

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