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The Importance of Automatic Stabilizers in the Next Recession This column explains the role that automatic stabilizers play in U.S. fiscal policy and provides a framework for examining their ...

In recent weeks, a number of signs have appeared suggesting that the recovery of the U.S. economy from the recent recession is on a bumpy path. During the second quarter of 2002, real GDP grew at an ...

Fighting recessions and inflation has become a lot more complicated lately. Beginning with the Great Recession, Washington's discretionary fiscal policy took on a lead role in economic stabilization.

View the presentation (pdf) on the Fiscal policy in advanced economies. Today I will discuss the complex relationship between economic growth and fiscal policy. It is a complex relationship because it ...