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Debt Mythology

Debt Mythology

Paul Krugman implies that deficit spending is necessary to jumpstart a floundering economy, and in the process repeats the well-known “we owe it to ourselves” fallacy about public debt in his latest piece. The implication of the “we owe the debt to ourselves” fallacy is that debt isn’t all that harmful or distortionary because, after…
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