If You Look At The Studies Coming

If You Look At The Studies Coming Out Of The Congressional Budget Office, The Number One Thing That's Going To Blow A Hole In The Deficit As We Go Forward 20, 30 Years Is Government Spending On Healthcare.

Many Of My Students Assume That Government Protection Is The Only Thing Ensuring Decent Wages For Most American Workers. But Basic Economics Shows That Competition Between Employers For Workers Can Be Very Effective At Preventing Businesses From Misbehaving.

If You Think About It, Candidate Obama, Sen. Obama, Was Running On Sort Of Long-run Economic Issues, Like Restoring Prosperity To The Middle Class, Dealing With The Perennial Problem Of Health Care In The United States. He Talked A Lot About The Budget Deficit, About The Need To Transition To Clean Energy.

What I Desire To Point Out Is That I Wish The Law Was Not So, But That Being The Law, I Must Follow It.

Tax Increases Appear To Have A Very Large Sustained And Highly Significant Negative Impact On Output. Since Most Of Our Exogenous Tax Changes Are In Fact Reductions, The More Intuitive Way To Express This Result Is That Tax Cuts Have Very Large And Persistent Positive Output Effects