Spending, Taxes and Deficits
1:30 to 2:45 PM MW
113 DeBartolo Hall
Important Dates:
Readings (click on 'orange' link to download)
Lecture
2 Leonhardt <OK You Fix the Budget -- Article for 1/29 assignment>
3 Citizen's Guide to the Budget <Report>
Budget and Diets <Article>
Eisner <Article>
4 CBO Budget Outlook <Report> <Summary>
Slides used in Class on the Composition and Trends in the Federal Budget <Slides>
5 Clinton's Economic Plan <Article>
Greenspan on Bush Tax Cuts <Article>
Leonhardt on Deficits <Article>
NY Times on Deficits <Article>
Slides used in Class Presentation on the Vanishing Surplus <Slides>
6 Shaviro <Article>
Stelzer <Article>
Pew Research <Report> <Most Important Problem Question>
Yellen <Article>
Optional: Auerbach and Gale <Article>
Slides used in Class Presentation <Slides>
7 Slides comparing US to Iceland, Greece, Ireland and Germany <Slides>
9 Joyce and Reischauer <Article>
Poterba <Article>
10 Krugman <Article>
Stanger <Article>
Kinsella <Article>
Gerecke <Article>
11 Hacker <Preface>
12 Medicare Summary <Report>
16 Rivilin - Ryan Proposal <CBO Letter>
25 CBO on Tax Reform Proposals <Report>