Countercyclical

Countercyclical is a republican word which means “I want you to think that I know what I’m talking about”.

Matthew Yglesias » The Sources of Regulatory Failure 2009

Countercyclical spending sounds like a good idea, until you realise that politcians wants to raise public spending in the good times (because times are good), and raise public spending in bad times (to lessen the hurt).

Matthew Yglesias » ABC Can’t Find Economists Who Think the Stimulus Failed 2010

But the Countercyclical Support Facility looks less like a fulfillment of that mission, and more like mission creep.

ADB Overdraft 2009

But while its new Countercyclical Support Facility might sound nice in theory, in practice it risks providing easy money to countries that would be better off subjected to some private-sector market discipline.

ADB Overdraft 2009

Countercyclical fiscal policy may or may not have shortened other recessions; there are too few data points and too much difference in other conditions to really know.

Don't Believe the Stimulus Scaremongers Amar Bhidé 2009

Countercyclical economic policy represents neither a license to allow the levees to break, nor does it mean a return to the age of large-scale, debt-financed economic stimulus packages.

Germany's Way Out of the Crisis Peer Steinbrück 2008

Countercyclical effects appear to count for some of the negative relationship, but not a lot of it.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Federal Spending Continued Some More: 2004

Countercyclical fiscal policy has now become unpopular and misunderstood.

The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed BILL CURRY AND JEREMY TOROBIN 2011

Countercyclical fiscal policy has now become unpopular and misunderstood.

The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed BILL CURRY AND JEREMY TOROBIN 2011

Countercyclical fiscal policy has now become unpopular and misunderstood.

The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed Michael Babad 2011