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

Automatic stabilizers are a key factor in easing the consequences of negative economic shocks. What are automatic stabilizers and how do they work? In an earlier post on this topic, Social Insurance ...

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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.

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 ...

One of the lessons of this recession is that fiscal policy is a very imperfect policy tool. In deep recessions when monetary policy has run its course -- when moving interest rates all the way to zero ...

Lawmakers are pushing the White House to tie future relief to economic conditions and if Congress gets the support it needs, people could see stimulus checks hit their bank accounts automatically. The ...

Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday endorsed an idea that many Democratic lawmakers have been pushing: to use so-called automatic stabilizers to keep critical coronavirus relief programs running without ...

A rich man once told me something that surprised me. He was once not rich. Understand that his formerly deprived circumstances weren’t the surprise. The U.S. is happily dense with people who came up ...