Chap 30

Table of Contents:

00:00 - Fiscal Policy, Deficits, and Debt
00:20 - Fiscal Policy
01:37 - Expansionary Fiscal Policy
02:45 - Expansionary Fiscal Policy
04:05 - Contractionary Fiscal Policy
05:39 - Contractionary Fiscal Policy
06:49 - Policy Options: G or T?
08:00 - Built-In Stability
09:45 - Built-In Stability
10:50 - Evaluating Fiscal Policy
12:15 - Cyclically Adjusted Budgets
13:15 - Cyclically Adjusted Budgets
13:37 - Recent U.S. Fiscal Policy
13:43 - Fiscal Policy: The Great Recession
13:50 - Budget Deficits and Projections
14:16 - Global Perspective
14:21 - Problems, Criticisms, & Complications
16:15 - Current Thinking on Fiscal Policy
16:17 - Problems, Criticisms, & Complications
16:22 - Current Thinking on Fiscal Policy
17:08 - The U.S. Public Debt
17:31 - The U.S. Public Debt
17:56 - The U.S. Public Debt
18:09 - Global Perspective
18:32 - The U.S. Public Debt
18:38 - Substantive Issues
18:44 - Crowding-Out Effect
20:19 - Social Security, Medicare Shortfalls