The abstract of an interesting paper that I’m reading: This note shows that the aggregate fiscal expenditure stimulus in the United States, properly adjusted for the declining… Read more “Reading is for the Birds”
Tag: Stimulus
Stimulus 2: Double Counterfactual
It’s getting kind of hard thinking up interesting titles for the same subjects, but I promise you, readers, that I will spend 99.9% of my time doing… Read more “Stimulus 2: Double Counterfactual”
Stimulus Counterfactual
Imagine that there was no hope of a fiscal “stimulus” package ever passing, and instead, the entire responsibility of stabilizing the macro-economy rested on the shoulders of… Read more “Stimulus Counterfactual”
Don’t Be Fooled
In a post today, Matthew Yglesias practices his religion: And when the jobs are right here, suddenly the data—which makes it perfectly clear that ARRA is playing… Read more “Don’t Be Fooled”
Anniversary Party
As I write this, around $200 billion of the “stimulus” has been “awarded”(?). It is worth a refreshing looking at definition of the word stimulus, because the… Read more “Anniversary Party”
Ideological ≠ Ideological Loser
I see a lot of Democratic criticism on the internet about the Republican party’s opposition to American Recovery and Reinvestment Act in the face of GOP members… Read more “Ideological ≠ Ideological Loser”