'Trillion-Dollar Deficits are Sustainable for Now'
From Economists View
December 14, 2012 - 1:10pm
John Makin of the American Enterprise Institute says that "trillion-dollar deficits are sustainable for now, unfortunately." I don't agree with everything he says -- the "unfortunately" in the title for one, his fear of inflation and the increase in debt...
December 14, 2012 - 1:10pm
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