How The Deficit Doves Helped Create Our Current Debt Crisis: Part Two

Achieving balance in both short-term and long-term budgets

Oct 7 • Eugene Steuerle

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September 2026

How The Deficit Doves Helped Create Our Current Debt Crisis

Part One: They continually left to some future legislature the task of paying for what they wanted.

Sep 25 • Eugene Steuerle

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Mr. Fiscal Policy, Eugene Steuerle, is Back to Discuss "Abandoned -- How Democrats and Republicans Have Deserted the Working Class, the…

Worried about $40 trillion in federal debt?

Published on Economics Matters by Laurence Kotlikoff • Sep 14

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The Misleading Treasury Bond Controversy

The focus should be on the higher real interest rate applying to the enormous stock of federal debt

Sep 3 • Eugene Steuerle

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August 2026

Why MAGA, Democratic Socialism And Other Populist “Isms” Abhor Basic Arithmetic

If you’re one of those people, like me, who look at numbers more than at rhetoric or soundbites, and at what government does rather than at what it…

Aug 25 • Eugene Steuerle

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Elon Musk Vs Nicholas Kristof: What Can Government And Charity Do?

Nicholas Kristof 2; Elon Musk 0

Aug 17 • Eugene Steuerle

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Health Reform Requires Attention To Medical Care Prices

Ultimate success in health reform requires the health sector to look like other growth industries with high productivity increases and…

Aug 10 • Eugene Steuerle

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July 2026

Taxing Capital Income More Uniformly Is A Worthy Objective In The Upcoming Budget Battles*

This nation soon must address the large gap between its spending and tax collections.

Jul 31 • Eugene Steuerle

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Interview On How We Have Abandoned The Working Class And The Young

With Bob Bixby on Facing the Future

Jul 28 • Eugene Steuerle

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What Can’t Continue Won’t*

Applying The Logic Of Edmund Phelps and Herb Stein To Many Of Today’s Policy Commitments

Jul 21 • Eugene Steuerle

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“What’s The Matter With Congress?” Part Two: The Weakened Presidency

Further Comments On An Article By Thomas Edsall

Jul 7 • Eugene Steuerle

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June 2026