Fiscal Deficit

Recent Content

RealTime Economic Issues Watch

Inflation fears and the Biden stimulus: Look to the Korean War, not Vietnam

Joseph E. Gagnon (PIIE)

February 25, 2021
RealTime Economic Issues Watch

What to do about the European Union's fiscal rules

Olivier Blanchard (PIIE), Álvaro Leandro (CaixaBank Research) and Jeromin Zettelmeyer (PIIE; International Monetary Fund)

February 22, 2021
Working Paper

Redesigning EU fiscal rules: From rules to standards

Olivier Blanchard (PIIE), Álvaro Leandro (CaixaBank Research) and Jeromin Zettelmeyer (PIIE; International Monetary Fund)

February 2021
RealTime Economic Issues Watch

In defense of concerns over the $1.9 trillion relief plan

Olivier Blanchard (PIIE)

February 18, 2021
Policy Brief

Fiscal resiliency in a deeply uncertain world: The role of semiautonomous discretion

Peter R. Orszag (Lazard), Robert E. Rubin (Council on Foreign Relations) and Joseph E. Stiglitz (Columbia University)

January 2021
PIIE Chart

US debt has increased, but burden of servicing it has fallen

Jason Furman (PIIE) and Lawrence H. Summers (Harvard University)
December 16, 2020
Past Event

A Conversation with Martín Guzmán, Argentina's Economy Minister

Martín Guzmán (Minister of Economy, Argentina)

December 9, 2020
Past Event

The next macroeconomic policy revolution

Caroline Atkinson (RockCreek; PIIE Executive Committee), Lawrence H. Summers (Harvard University) and Laurence Boone (Chief Economist, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development)

December 8, 2020
Op-Eds

(How) Will We Pay Back the Federal Debt?

Michael Klein (Tufts University) and Maurice Obstfeld (PIIE)

June 9, 2020
via EconoFact
Testimonies

Reexamining the Economic Costs of Debt

Olivier Blanchard (PIIE)

November 20, 2019