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Fiscal Policy
Regulation and Subsidies
Bob Murphy interviewed me on Saturday, May 2 about my Hoover article on the anti-stimulus bill. He posted the audio version, along with links, here. He also had me discuss the anti-lockdown demonstration that Lawrence Samuels and I organized in Monterey on May 1.
Here’s the link to the video version. Pardon the interruption at about the 2:56 point for me to move my cat to another room.
READER COMMENTS
Thomas Hutcheson
May 10 2020 at 12:29pm
Fiscal policy cannot increase aggregate demand, so Henderson’s discussing this in terms of “stimulus,” not part of the bill’s title by the way, is pretty silly.
Congressional appropriations can in principle provide “relief” — shift some of the harm from those most affected to the rest of us. That Congress failed to just fund unemployment insurance that provides a high % of lost income plus individual health insurance while unemployed — the kind of system we ought to have pandemic or no pandemic — but did create the nightmarishly complex PPP, bail out the airlines and pay off real estate developers are worth opprobrium,however
Chris H
May 11 2020 at 2:34pm
Well, what the hell were you doing in the cat’s room in the first place?!
David Henderson
May 11 2020 at 3:36pm
LOL. Our cat Rocky was rubbing his head and forth on the computer, making it jiggle.
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