…Using DOGE’s savings to write checks would be doubly reckless given that the massive baby boom generation is retiring, placing unprecedented demands on U.S. entitlement programs. …As long as the government is running big deficits, those checks will be financed with borrowed money, which ...
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I evaluate the usefulness of a set of intra-year fiscal indicators in forecasting General Government fiscal deficits in the euro area and most of its member countries. The indicators are mainly based on monthly and quarterly Public Accounts’ figures. The indicators anticipate annual fiscal deficits...
social expenditure in countries with available data rose from 14% ofGDPin 1980 to 21% in 2022. …Leviathans may not remain lumbering for ever. Running large deficits in order to fund transfer payments will, eventually, become too expensive—as countries such as Greece and Italy discovered in ...
Taken by itself, a reduction in any country's trade surplus will reduce aggregate demand and therefore employment in that country. I will therefore look ... Feldstein,Martin - 《Journal of Economic Perspectives》 被引量: 173发表: 2008年 The political economy of the German Lnder deficits: weak...
Insurance in the era of generative AI: Use cases that transform the industry Innovative insurers are moving quickly to use the power of generative AI, and in this post, we’d like to share a few of the most important classes of use cases that our insurance customers are excited about today...
often placing traditional mechanisms for government decision-making at odds with the disruptive landscape that policymakers must look to shape. emerging mobility trends exacerbate a number of core challenges facing governments, from constrained funding and widening infrastructure deficits to increasing uncertai...
that during periods of economic decline, the nation should run deficits, because additional government spending has a stimulative effect that can help restart a sluggish economy. Despite this benefit, voters rarely appreciate deficits. They see Congress as spending wastefully during a time when they ...
However, persisting capacity deficits, increased financial dependence on the central government, and political and institutional constraints mean that the achievements have fallen short of the reformers' intentions. The study suggests that even where political will to decentralize exists, it has to ...
Please spare us any future whining about debt and deficits. At this point, you’re hopefully thinking this is very bad policy. But you may also be wondering what this has to do with Trump. The connection with Trump is that he has – or at least had – the power to stop this massive...