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Conservatives Shouldn't Fear the Fiscal Cliff

Noah Smith | Posted 02.17.2013 | Politics
Read More: Robert-Barro, Richardian Equivalence, Fiscal Cliff, Keynesians, Menzie Chinn, Fiscal Cliff Gop, Politics News
Noah Smith

Now, there may be good reason to fear this outcome. But conservatives should be much more sanguine about it than others. Why? Because according to a central tenet of conservative economics, the fiscal cliff is not going to be a big deal.

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Are We Blaming Consumers for Their Own Misfortune?

Chris Abraham | Posted 10.29.2012 | Business
Read More: Keynesian Economics, Austrity, US Economy Recession, US Economic Crisis, United States, Keynesians, Austerity Measures, US Recession, Austerity, Financial Collapse, Lotka-Volterra, Business News
Chris Abraham

Will we continue to over-hunt, over-fish our customers, consumers, and our market -- our prey -- until they're either extinct or just too savvy to fall for our seductive calls? What is our responsibility to the health, happiness, and success of those who we fleece for money?

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Austerity Offers Europe Their Only Hope

Michael Pento | Posted 07.17.2012 | Business
Read More: Keynesian Economics, Europe Economy, Keynesians, Austerity Measures, Austerity, Business News
Michael Pento

Blaming a recession on the idea that an insolvent government was finally forced into reducing its debt is like blaming a morning hangover on the fact that you eventually had to stop drinking the night before.

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Calling Progressive Economists Into the Public Square

David Coates | Posted 02.11.2012 | Politics
Read More: Radical Economists, Ows, Heritage Foundation, Cato Institute, Poverty, Organic Intellectuals, Keynesians, Neo-Classical Economists, Aei, Economic Policy Institute, Inequality, Progressive Economists, Schumpeterians, Politics News
David Coates

It is the moment for all of us with the requisite skills to make a sustained contribution to the creation of a progressive economic consciousness in contemporary America. If we do not, and if we do not do it quickly, then heaven help us all after November 2012!

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The Great Recession

Larry Abrams | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Read More: Economy, Bob Marley, The Next President, Robert Reich, Bretton Woods, Karl Marx, Obama Administration, The Great Recession, Robert Pollin, Capitalism, Nicolas Sarkozy, Ken Mehlman, Communism, Congressional Bailout, Secretary of Labor Reich, Ben Bernanke, Jeb Hensarling, Socialism, Keynesians, Bank Bailout, Business News
Larry Abrams

We need an economic system of checks and balances where the public sector competes with the private sector and keeps it honest, and vice versa.

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