Topic: James Galbraith
AlphaNinja | 2009-11-20 20:00:06
Good interview with Texas professor James Galbraith on the idea of the scope and structure of a second stimulus.
Yes, a SECOND stimulus. The first has been maybe 30-40% enacted, and is riddled with fraud, but he thinks we need another.
What's more, he thinks the most important thing to do in a stimulus is to "shore up" state ...
Las Vegas Sun | 2009-02-07 16:01:30
Economists, politicians still haven’t pinned down the actions that ended it
As senators wrangle this week over Washingtons plan to stimulate the economy, the debate is laced with competing interpretations of something that happened seven decades ago: the Great Depression. Many Democrats believe governments spending under Franklin Roosevelt helped the nation climb out of the Depression. They support President ...
