The fiscal consequences of Bush
Financial Times
by Clive Crook
04/13/08
Competition for ‘most damaging legacy of the Bush administration’ is lively. Iraq is the front-runner, of course, but bear in mind the wreckage of fiscal policy — although to use that term is to imply that the US even has a fiscal policy, when it does not. It would be more accurate to talk of fiscal consequences or fiscal footprint (an apt metaphor) than to imply anything as deliberate as ‘policy’... [free registration required]
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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=fiscal+policy
by Clive Crook
04/13/08
Competition for ‘most damaging legacy of the Bush administration’ is lively. Iraq is the front-runner, of course, but bear in mind the wreckage of fiscal policy — although to use that term is to imply that the US even has a fiscal policy, when it does not. It would be more accurate to talk of fiscal consequences or fiscal footprint (an apt metaphor) than to imply anything as deliberate as ‘policy’... [free registration required]
http://tinyurl.com/6xnk2d
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=fiscal+policy
rudkla - 22. Apr, 10:59
