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When you study the money supply, it shows that the inflation risk is different than in the 2010s.
Four articles from The Conversation US archive provide context and analysis on the historic legislation.
Whether the next pandemic bailout bill is called relief or stimulus depends on what ails the US economy – and maybe it doesn’t matter at all.
Easing off when the unemployment rate is 6% would leave us worse off than we’ve been in decades.
Without spending the money Australia will have a much higher rate of unemployment than it needs for a very long time, new Grattan Institute calculations find.
Governments are throwing billions of taxpayer dollars on stimulus measures after COVID-19. But they must do it diligently, and transparently.
There is no magic money tree in economics – whatever money is spent must be paid back later.
The South African government should be spending more, not less, to boost economic growth and create jobs.
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.
Beijing might have been ultra-tough on the pandemic, but it has been horizontal in response to the economic shock.
Governments are planning a fiscal expansion worth 10% of GDP. Here’s a way of making it more effective.
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Program Director, Economic Policy, Grattan Institute
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Associate Professor of Economics, University of South Carolina
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Professor of Public Policy, University of Virginia
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Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy and Head of Energy, Institute for Climate Energy and Disaster Solutions, Australian National University
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Principal and Vice Chancellor, University of Glasgow
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Assistant Director of the Harvard Opinion Research Program at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University
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Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Co-Director, Institute for Economic Justice, University of the Witwatersrand
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Richard L. Menschel Professor of Public Health and Professor of Health Policy and Political Analysis, Emeritus, Harvard University
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Senior Research Scientist at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University
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Professor, Dept. of Economics, Finance & Real Estate, Monmouth University
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Associate Professor of Latin American Politics, Monmouth University
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