Comments on: How cutting the deficit can increase the deficit

By: A spreadsheet to confound and ruin your holidays « Freethinking Economist

A spreadsheet to confound and ruin your holidays « Freethinking Economist — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 14:54:35 +0000

[...] we saw it with Japan. And so now I want to show it with [...]

By: Lifting up the inflation debate « Freethinking Economist

Lifting up the inflation debate « Freethinking Economist — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 21:38:22 +0000

[...] asap”. Wait until the private sector can take the strain, or you just do a Japan (see Koo post). But the article discussing government tradeoffs is good thoughtful stuff. It identifies [...]

By: Seriously, the CBI is trying to drive us into another Depression « Freethinking Economist

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 15:28:58 +0000

[...] without borrowing rates shooting up too far. OK, they are different in quite a few ways (see previous post), including their high household savings rates. But, still, it is crazy to act as if the biggest [...]

By: Opinion: If you go down to the woods today…

Opinion: If you go down to the woods today… — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 17:24:25 +0000

[...] freethinking economist Giles Wilkes illustrates with some salmon tasting charts in a posting called How Cutting the Deficit Can Increase the Deficit, cutting the deficit can increase the deficit. No, really, that’s not a typo. Read it [...]