Posts Tagged debt

While We Are Wringing Our Hands….

While we wait for the impact of sequestration to hit, we might ponder this: In an interview with Spiegel Online, a Harvard economist insisted that we could save an amount equal to the sequestration cuts every year  just by ending the War on Drugs. “The prohibition of drugs is the worst solution for preventing abuse,” said [...]

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Debt and Taxes

It doesn’t take long for my students to learn that “it depends” is almost always the right answer to policy questions. The world is complicated, and questions about how government should operate are rarely black or white. In an excellent column about debt and taxes, Morton Marcus makes precisely that point. Debt incurred in order [...]

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