Automatic stabilizers are a key factor in easing the consequences of negative economic shocks. What are automatic stabilizers and how do they work? In an earlier post on this topic, Social Insurance ...

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As we approach sequestration today the dominant narrative continues to be that the huge run-up in the deficit since the Great Recession has been our greatest political-perhaps even a moral-failure.

On May 17, Representative Jimmy Gomez (D-CA) and six other members of the House of Representatives, all Democrats, proposed an additional stimulus measure built as an “automatic stabilizer.” The idea ...

A rich man once told me something that surprised me. He was once not rich. Understand that his formerly deprived circumstances weren’t the surprise. The U.S. is happily dense with people who came up ...

The $1.9 trillion recovery package set to go to a vote in the coming weeks won’t include automatic stabilizers. A perennially popular policy among left-of-center wonks and the public, automatic ...