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‘It’s big but it can only do so much.’ Bastiaan Slabbers/Alamy

March 16, 2021

Joe Biden’s US$1.9 trillion stimulus won’t be enough to reignite world economy on its own

Michael Kitson, Cambridge Judge Business School

US trading partners can expect an export boom, but that alone will only have muted benefits for them.

Bank of Canada Gov. Tiff Macklem speaks during a news conference at the Bank of Canada on Sept. 10, 2020 in Ottawa. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld

September 16, 2020

The throne speech: Fiscal prudes are fretting about the wrong issues

Marc-Andre Pigeon, University of Saskatchewan

While those on the left, right and middle worry about the federal deficit, the real world that we live in is in trouble. The fiscal prudes are fretting about the wrong issues.

Good old days: Before the coronavirus hit, governors, like California’s Gavin Newsom, had easier jobs. AP/Rich Pedroncelli, Pool

April 10, 2020

Plummeting tax revenues will put governors in tough budget situations

Raymond Scheppach, University of Virginia

As Congress considers further financial help for victims of the coronavirus pandemic, the magnitude of the fiscal crisis that governors and their states will have to face is just starting to emerge.

Canadian bank notes are seen in this 2017 photo. Ottawa finances deficit spending by borrowing money. Twenty per cent of the money is borrowed from the Bank of Canada. In other words, the government borrows that money from itself. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld

March 27, 2019

How government deficits fund private savings

D.T. Cochrane, York University, Canada

Critics complain that government debt saddles future generations with a financial burden. The critics are wrong.

Reading straight from Ed Balls’ playbook. Stefan Rousseau PA Wire/PA Images

November 23, 2016

Autumn Statement 2016: Tories shift to growth strategy in an Ed Balls-style pirouette

Alan Shipman, The Open University

Hammond has taken an oddly similar stance to former shadow chancellor Ed Balls: running a deficit and boosting infrastructure spending.

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