Note to Self: If we want to have a better world, we either need to change the politics to restore the stabilization policy mission to fiscal authorities--and somehow provide them with the technocratic competence to carry out that mission--or give additional powers to central banks, powers that we classify or used to classify as being to a degree "fiscal".

See: http://www.bradford-delong.com/2016/11/imf-panel-fiscal-policy-in-the-new-normal-partial-transcript.html

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