Raising The Minimum Wage, As President Obama

Cold-turkey Deficit Reduction Would Cause A Significant Recession. A Recent Analysis By The Congressional Budget Office Estimated That Going Headlong Over The Cliff Would Cause Our Gross Domestic Product, Which Has Been Growing At An Annual Rate Of Around 2 Percent, To Fall At A Rate Of 2.9 Percent In The First Half Of 2013.

Most Arguments For Instituting Or Raising A Minimum Wage Are Based On Fairness And Redistribution. Even If Workers Are Getting A Competitive Wage, Many Of Us Are Deeply Disturbed That Some Hard-working Families Still Have Very Little.

Tax Increases Appear To Have A Very Large Sustained And Highly Significant Negative Impact On Output.

Tax Increases Appear To Have A Very Large Sustained And Highly Significant Negative Impact On Output. Since Most Of Our Exogenous Tax Changes Are In Fact Reductions, The More Intuitive Way To Express This Result Is That Tax Cuts Have Very Large And Persistent Positive Output Effects

A Natural Way That An Economist Approaches A Problem Is To Say, Here's Where I Think The Economy Is Going; This Is What We Need To Deal With The Problem.