Thursday, April 5, 2012

Fiscal policy

  • There are two competing narratives about the federal government budget in the political mainstream today. The first is that we are, or soon will be, in crisis, because of runaway government spending.
  • (Huffington Post)
  • Other Republicans cast the 42-year-old Mr. Ryan as the intellectual light of the party and the heir to Jack Kemp, the late New York congressman who also specialized in fiscal policy and was Senator Bob Dole's running mate in 1996.
  • (New York Times)
  • The scorecard, the only one to utilize every roll call vote affecting fiscal policy, was based on 337 House and 234 Senate votes from 2011.
  • (YAHOO!)
  • They may not be Democrats, either. They want something different, and drastically so, from what the two parties are offering today: a hands-off approach to social and fiscal policy.
  • (Los Angeles Times)
  • Other Republicans cast Ryan, 42, as the intellectual light of the party and the heir to Jack Kemp, the late New York congressman who also specialized in fiscal policy and was Sen. Bob Doles running mate in 1996.
  • (Seattle Times)
  • Other Republicans cast the 42-year-old Ryan as the intellectual light of the party and the heir to Jack Kemp, the late New York congressman who also specialized in fiscal policy and was Sen. Bob Doles running mate in 1996.
  • (San Jose Mercury News)
  • That means steps to buoy EU-wide growth, including easier fiscal policy in Germany and easier monetary policy from the ECB. It means outright temporary fiscal transfers to Spain.
  • (Bloomberg)
  • "Proactive monetary policy is necessary to escape from deflation and end will review the bank's current price outlook of 0.5 percent inflation for fiscal year starting in April 2013 at the meeting on April 27.
  • (Bloomberg)
  • On Thursdays show, Johnson also shares his thoughts on the increasingly visible national debt and the U.S. fiscal policy over the past 30 years.
  • (NPR News)
  • Free trade, free markets, sound fiscal policy, good regulations, monetary stability are apparently not enough for corporate Canada.
  • (Financial Post)

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