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Julia Hanna |
When Words Get in the Way: The Failure of Fiscal Language The deficit and related fiscal measures are basically labeling conventions with no intrinsic meaning. So why aren't economists getting the message?   |
Finance & Development
September 2011 |
Fiscal Neighbors Canada and the United States confronted growing budget deficits and public debt but the results differed. |
Finance & Development
September 2010
Kevin Cheng |
The Long Run Is Near France, like many advanced economies, confronts the expensive needs of a rapidly aging population |
The Motley Fool
April 7, 2010
Thomas F. Cooley |
(Don't) Read My Lips: Higher Taxes Are Inevitable Given current fiscal realities, higher taxes are inevitable. |
Knowledge@Wharton
June 18, 2003 |
Fate Worse than Debt: Can the U.S. Deficit Rise to $45.47 Trillion? The U.S. government's future obligations outweigh its projected revenues so heavily that it would need a permanent income tax increase of 66% or the immediate elimination of all federal discretionary spending to put it on track for balancing its finances. |
Finance & Development
June 2011 |
Beyond Retirees How countries change their pension systems and whether they do it in tandem have major implications for global economic health. |
Finance & Development
September 2010
Mark Horton |
How Grim a Fiscal Future? For most advanced economies, both the near term and the longer term are tight, but there are ways to ease budget pressures |
Finance & Development
March 1, 2001
Martin Muhleisen & Hamid Faruqee |
Japan: Population Aging and the Fiscal Challenge With Japan facing a demographic crisis, government finances--stretched to the limit to keep the economy afloat--have to cope with the rising strain on public pension and health systems. This article looks at the economic and fiscal costs of aging in Japan... |
Finance & Development
March 2009
Carlo Cottarelli |
Paying the Piper The role of medium-term fiscal policy in rebounding from the crisis. |
Finance & Development
December 2010
Baldacci et al. |
Getting Debt under Control In dealing with the aftermath of the Great Recession, policymakers must pay attention to the mix of austerity policies. |
Finance & Development
September 1, 2000
Robert A. Feldman & C. Maxwell Watson |
Central Europe: From Transition to EU Membership The Central European countries have made considerable progress with the transition to a market economy and now face the challenge of developing macroeconomic policy frameworks on the road to EU accession. |
Finance & Development
September 2009
Carlo Cottarelli & Jose Vinals |
Looking Ahead Countries must begin now to devise economic strategies to accompany the recovery. |
CFO
March 1, 2008
Edward Teach |
Thriller The federal government's annual report is not for the faint of heart. |
Finance & Development
June 2011 |
Balancing the Burden The costs of benefits for current retirees fall more on future Americans than on future Italians. |
BusinessWeek
August 30, 2004
Michael J. Mandel |
Is America Going Broke? Two new books make the same point: even with growth, the financing of the current entitlement system will eventually have to be dramatically rebuilt |
BusinessWeek
June 28, 2004
Glenn Hubbard |
The Social Security And Medicare Morass Entitlement reform in the U.S. -- and encouraging more private saving -- are essential. |
Finance & Development
June 2009
Horton & El-Ganainy |
Back to Basics: What Is Fiscal Policy? What is fiscal policy? And, how can fiscal tools provide a boost to the world economy? |
Finance & Development
March 1, 2001
Alvin D.L. Hilaire |
Economic Stabilization in the Caribbean Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica, and Trinidad and Tobago simultaneously tackled serious economic difficulties in the early 1990s. The results of their adjustment programs demonstrate that fiscal reform, supported by other policies, may be the key to achieving a sustainable recovery... |
Investment Advisor
November 2006 |
Remarks by Chairman Ben S. Bernanke The Coming Demographic Transition: Will We Treat Future Generations Fairly? -- Over the next few decades, the U.S. population will grow significantly older, a development that will affect our society and our economy in many ways. |
BusinessWeek
February 20, 2006
James Mehring |
Deficits: The CBO's Forecasts Look Too Rosy The massive budget deficits of recent years are starting to shrink, according to the Congressional Budget Office. But as officials readily admit, the agency's projections don't fully capture reality. |
Finance & Development
December 2009
Baldacci & Gupta |
Fiscal Expansions: What Works There is a firm link between the composition of fiscal policy and the length of a financial crisis. |
Reason
Aug/Sep 2009
Brian Doherty |
So Long, Surplus: Social Security unstimulated The "Social Security surplus" has vanished. That figure has long referred to the amount in Social Security taxes collected over and above the amount the system pays out that year. |
Finance & Development
June 2011 |
How Ready for Pensioners? A new index assesses which countries are the best prepared and which are the worst prepared when it comes to meeting retirees' needs. |
Finance & Development
September 2011
Laurence Ball et al. |
Painful Medicine Although advanced economies need medium-run fiscal consolidation, slamming on the brakes too quickly will hurt incomes and job prospects. |
Finance & Development
December 2010 |
Stimulus Worked Without the quick and massive policy response, the Great Recession might still plague the United States. |
Finance & Development
June 1, 2005
Peter Heller |
Back to Basics -- Fiscal Space: What It Is and How to Get It Although the term is new, the concept is not. It has long been an element of sound fiscal analysis. And the challenge of creating fiscal space is one that has always confronted governments and their advisors, including international financial institutions like the IMF. |
Finance & Development
March 1, 2003
Barnett & Ossowski |
What Goes Up... Why oil-producing states must husband their resources |
Finance & Development
June 1, 2001
Ronald McKinnon |
Can the World Economy Afford U.S. Tax Cuts? The international dollar standard redux... |
Finance & Development
June 1, 2007
Traa & Carare |
A Government's Net Worth A new tool in surveillance, the public sector balance sheet, can help diagnose vulnerabilities that are not immediately visible in the budget. |
BusinessWeek
February 4, 2010
Peter Coy |
Debt: The U.S. Is on the Edge of a Cliff There are still buyers aplenty for Treasury obligations. But if Uncle Sam's borrowing gets much higher, investors could abruptly lose confidence in the U.S. |
The Motley Fool
December 8, 2009
Morgan Housel |
Should You Worry About the Budget Deficit? Maybe things really are different this time. Unless we rethink the word "entitlement," yes, you should worry about the budget deficit. |
Finance & Development
March 2011
Mario Mesquita |
Great Expectations Brazil's economic success has raised the bar for that country, at home and abroad. |
Finance & Development
March 1, 2000
Arminio Fraga |
Monetary Policy During the Transition to a Floating Exchange Rate: Brazil's Recent Experience The financial crisis that erupted in Asia in 1997 quickly spread to other developing regions, as international investors panicked and pulled their capital out. In this article, the governor of Brazil's central bank outlines the steps Brazil took to avert financial disaster when inflows of private foreign capital suddenly dried up. |
National Real Estate Investor
June 1, 2005
Anthony Downs |
A Recipe Sure to End the Real Estate Boom Slower growth, higher interest rates, and higher taxes are not a recipe for prosperity. So, real estate will be part of the broader economic suffering required by the adjustments our economy must make. |
BusinessWeek
November 22, 2004
Gleckman & McNamee |
What's Ahead For Social Security President George W. Bush has interpreted his reelection as a mandate to restructure the troubled Social Security system. Can Bush's proposed private accounts fix the system's fiscal troubles? |
The Motley Fool
March 19, 2010
Nate Weisshaar |
Will Your Portfolio Catch the Greek Contagion? This isn't to say that the U.S. is going to be the next Greece, but in order to address our own fiscal shortcomings, Americans will face decisions not unlike Greece's. |
Finance & Development
December 2011
Florence Jaumotte |
Fixing the Flaws in EMU The euro area's long-term survival requires a fundamental transformation of policymaking |
Finance & Development
March 1, 2000
Jose Angel Gurria |
Mexico: Recent Developments, Structural Reforms, and Future Challenges In recent years, the Mexican government has implemented a series of economic reforms to strengthen the country's fundamentals and increase its ability to cope with external shocks. Because of the progress that has been made, the government is confident that Mexico will be able to leave recent crises behind and start the new millennium with a stable and growing economy. |
BusinessWeek
January 24, 2005
Aaron Bernstein |
Social Security President Bush and other free-market advocates are suggesting the most sweeping change to this core social program since its inception. But are private accounts a good idea? |
Finance & Development
December 1, 2001
Davis, Ossowski, Daniel & Barnett |
Oil Funds: Problems Posing as Solutions? Heavy dependence on oil revenues---which are volatile and unpredictable, and will, sooner or later, dry up---greatly complicates a country's fiscal policy. To tackle these problems, many oil-producing countries are setting up oil funds. But are these really a solution, or just a problem posing as one? |
BusinessWeek
November 22, 2004
Robert Kuttner |
The Budget Mess Bush Can No Longer Ignore The U.S. economy can't grow its way out of such big deficits. |
Inc.
January 2006
Robert E. Litan |
Almost a Tax Plan The budget deficit is deadly serious. Tax reform should be too. |
Finance & Development
June 2010
Linda Yueh |
A Stronger China China can emerge from the crisis stronger if it increases domestic demand and promotes global integration. |
Parameters
Autumn 2004
Nader Elhefnawy |
National Mobilization: An Option in Future Conflicts? Despite a great deal of hand-wringing on the part of social critics, the really difficult question was not asked: Would a World War II-scale mobilization even have been possible after 9/11 if it had been deemed an appropriate response? |
Reason
March 2002
Brink Lindsey |
Social Insecurity Why an increasing number of countries are turning to market-based pension plans... |
Finance & Development
September 1, 2000
Emine Gurgen |
Central Asia: Achievements and Prospects Although the five Central Asian countries in transition have made progress in moving to a market economy, they still have far to go and need to intensify their reform efforts. |
Finance & Development
June 2009
Eyzaguirre et al. |
Latin America: When Is Fiscal Stimulus Right? For some Latin American countries stimulus is appropriate during the global economic crisis. But for others the answer is less clear. |
BusinessWeek
June 16, 2011
Rich Miller |
The Unreliable Predictive Power of Bond Yields Bond investors follow interest rates as predictors of financial crises, but it turns out they're a poor indicator. |
Financial Advisor
October 2006
Bruce W. Fraser |
Economic Pin Balls As it stands today, Bush's economic legacy is still uncertain. Is Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson, Jr. more than a Hail Mary? |
The Motley Fool
February 20, 2009
Todd Wenning |
Are Taxpayer Dollars Really Funding the Bailouts? Our frustrations as taxpayers regarding the bailouts shouldn't be based on our formal income taxes; our concerns should be with the massive government borrowing and its negative effects on the long-term value of the dollar. |
