Friday, May 04, 2012

Four Fiscal Charts

Krugman posted a week ago, Four Fiscal Charts. "Here’s an exercise I did for my own edification — and to prepare for questions on book tour — but others may be interested in the results. I wanted a simple answer to the people who always insist that we must be having massive fiscal stimulus because we have a big budget deficit; my answer is that the deficit is a result of the depressed economy, but how do we show that without getting too much into the weeds?"

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