Government debt

Old Mistakes Die Hard.

With the unemployment rate the highest it's been in 25 years, The Roosevelt Institute asked historians, economists and other public thinkers to reflect on the lessons of the New Deal and explore new, big ideas for how to get America back to work. TAPPED will be cross-posting the 10-part series with the New Deal 2.0 blog. In this installment, James K. Galbraith warns that without a bold change in course, the jobs problem won’t go away.

Turning the Debt Debate Around: Arguments for Higher Inflation.

Over the summer, a lot of the inflation debate has basically been economists of the Keyensian stripe reassuring their monetarist colleagues that the extraordinary measures needed to fight the recession, even when laid on top of the structural deficits created by the Bush administration, aren't going to lead to a huge increase in the inflation rate and all of the economic problems like that go along with it, with bonds becoming onerously expensive and purchasing power diminishing.

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