Government Budget Deficits: What’s to be Done, and When?

Episode Details

On this week’s episode of EconoFact Chats, host Michael Klein is joined by Bill Gale, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, and co-director of the Tax Policy Center, to discuss the government’s large budget deficit, tax policy, and issues of redistribution. They also discuss Bill’s book, Fiscal Therapy: Curing America‘s Debt Addiction and Investing in the Future.

(Podcast recorded on 22nd October, 2020)

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