As we approach sequestration today the dominant narrative continues to be that the huge run-up in the deficit since the Great Recession has been our greatest political-perhaps even a moral-failure.

Learn how automatic stabilizers, used in countries like Sweden and Germany, could depoliticize Social Security reform by ...

The $1.9 trillion recovery package set to go to a vote in the coming weeks won’t include automatic stabilizers. A perennially popular policy among left-of-center wonks and the public, automatic ...

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PRIOR to the Government’s announcement of the National Recovery Plan which outlined the direction of the health sector recovery and the opening up of economic and social sectors, three indicators were ...

Mark Thoma has a nice piece on automatic stabilizers (The Importance of Automatic Stabilizers): [D]espite their importance in smoothing the impact of economic shocks, very little discussion of the ...