All Posts Tagged With: "government debt"

Perspective ~ An Unstimulating Idea

“It’s like taking a bucket of water from the deep end of a pool and dumping it into the shallow end.”
That’s how George Mason University economist Russell Roberts describes the logic—rather, illogic—of the economic “stimulus” proposals that everyone and his uncle have been proposing.
If we needed further demonstration of the folly that is the American [...]

1Mar2008 | Sheldon Richman | 0 comments | Continued

Deficits Do Matter

Hans Sennholz served as president of the Foundation for Economic Education from 1992 to 1997.  At the time of his retirement, FEE’s Board of Trustees honored him with the title president emeritus. He was chairman of the department of economics at Grove City College for many years. This article is reprinted from the December 1986 [...]

1Mar2004 | Hans F. Sennholz | 3 comments | Continued