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US budget deficit's fall should make European 'austerians' think again

Budget shortfall predicted to drop to 4%, from 10% in 2009, vindicating Obama's policy of US growing its way out of debt

If only the "austerians" had listened. According to the latest forecasts, the US budget deficit will shrink to 4% of GDP this year.

Japan Is About To Prove Keynesian Economics Entirely Wrong

Or we could run the headline as "Japan is about to prove Keynesian economics entirely correct". For we've that wonderful thing going on, that extreme rarity in economics, a natural experiment.

Why Obama Cannot Match Germany's Jobs Miracle

  In 2002, Chancellor Gerhard Schroder appointed a jobs council headed by Volkswagen"s Peter Hartz to solve Germany"s high unemployment. In 2011, President Barack Obama similarly appointed a jobs commission headed by General Electric"s Jeffrey Immelt to achieve the same goal.

Harvard Prof Slams Keynesian Economics Because Keynes Was Gay

Harvard professor and prominent Obama-critic Niall Ferguson told more than 500 financial advisers at a conference on Thursday that Keynesian economics, an economic philosophy that advocates stimulus spending and is not kind to the idea of empire (which Ferguson loves), is flawed because Keynes was g

Even Billionaires Do Dumb Deals

In some ways, debt has never looked so good. This may sound strange given over-indebtedness arguably led to the financial crisis and continues to impede economic growth in the developed world, despite what Keynesian propagandists tell you.

The magnitude of the disastrous Bush presidency told in 24charts

In 24 charts, the Washington Post reveals how George W. Bush's presidency screwed up the country and the rest of the world for many years to come.

Reinhart and Rogoff Were Wrong Even Without the 'Spreadsheet Error'

Though Kenneth Rogoff has written some fairly obtuse op-eds over the years, the book he co-authored with Carmen Reinhart, This Time Is Different, was very much a worthwhile read. If their Keynesian, Phillip's Curve ideology is ignored, they offered some really interesting statistics.