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Euros & Dollars: French Budget Debate Long on Words, Short on Facts

Sven R. Larson March 29, 2024

The national French statistics office has released new numbers on government debt. Everybody debates those numbers, but has anyone actually read them?

Euros & Dollars: French Budget Cuts Only the Beginning

Sven R. Larson March 12, 2024

President Macron is setting the stage for bad budget battles to come. Meanwhile, the French economy is getting worse by the day.

Euros & Dollars: What Is Monetary Seigniorage?

Sven R. Larson February 28, 2024

Argentina’s new president, Javier Milei, talks about making ‘seigniorage’ illegal. But does he really know what the term means?

Euros & Dollars: Slovakia Tiptoes Toward Spending Reforms

Sven R. Larson February 7, 2024

There is a big need for structural reforms to the Slovakian welfare state. Such reforms require a level of political leadership that Europe so far has only seen in Hungary.

Euros & Dollars: The Three Phases of U.S. Fiscal Decline

Sven R. Larson December 5, 2023

Congress is borrowing 26 cents of every dollar they spend. Only structural spending reforms can prevent a fiscal meltdown—and time is running out.

Ending Budget Deficits: Treat the Symptom or the Cause?

Sven R. Larson November 9, 2023

Last time Congress tried to end its own deficits, it ended up putting band-aid on a broken leg.

Europe: Stop Falling Behind!

Sven R. Larson August 3, 2023

Europe’s economy is falling behind America, and the gap is getting big. The reason is obvious, and so is the solution.

Fiscal Forecast: Budget Deficits Threaten NATO

Sven R. Larson June 14, 2023

How is NATO going to respond to the problem with its rapidly depleting stockpiles of military hardware? They can’t spend more money.

Red Ink: Public Budgets Remain Weak

Sven R. Larson October 23, 2022

The deficit for both the EU and the euro zone have been shrinking for six quarters in a row.

Tag: budget deficits

Euros & Dollars: French Budget Debate Long on Words, Short on Facts

Euros & Dollars: French Budget Cuts Only the Beginning

Euros & Dollars: What Is Monetary Seigniorage?

Euros & Dollars: Slovakia Tiptoes Toward Spending Reforms

Euros & Dollars: The Three Phases of U.S. Fiscal Decline

Ending Budget Deficits: Treat the Symptom or the Cause?

Europe: Stop Falling Behind!

Fiscal Forecast: Budget Deficits Threaten NATO

Red Ink: Public Budgets Remain Weak

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