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Government borrowing through the financial crisis and the pandemic was a good trade, because it repaired household balance sheets.

Drawn from what Ben Carlson said

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government What states are for and what they are worse at than markets and networks: legitimacy, moral hazard, and who may be entrusted with power.

fiscal policy The spending-and-taxing half of macro, as against the central-bank half: multipliers, stabilisers, stimulus.

What Ben Carlson actually said

  1. Ben Carlson Director of institutional asset management at Ritholtz…
    I think the fact that the government took on debt during two crises to help households was a good trade-off.

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