Politicians are violating Mitchell’s Golden Rule.
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Historical Evidence on Reducing Large Debt Burdens
How three advanced nations successfully dealt with large debt burdens.
Financing Big Government with the Printing Press
Letting the inflation genie out of the bottle is not a good idea.
Six Key Things to Understand for Sensible Fiscal Policy
Here is what everyone should understand about the spending side of the fiscal ledger.
Debating the IRS Budget
Is the IRS budget too small?
New CBO Numbers Confirm that Modest Spending Restraint Is the Ideal Way of Balancing the Budget
Deficits are a symptom of the spending disease.
Carbon Tax Salesmanship: A Case Study of Political Dishonesty
New spending doesn’t make new taxes “revenue neutral.”
The Green New Deal Is a Dangerous Fantasy
Politicians talk big about screwing the rich, but the rest of us will be picking up the tab.
Five Lessons from the Government Shutdown
These are the fiscal policy lessons we can learn from the current shutdown fight.
Government Shutdowns and Financial Markets
Crummy Keynesian models give predictably nonsensical Keynesian results.