Bleeding the Patient: The Debt/Deficit Hoax Exposed

Publisher:  Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, Ottawa, Canada
Year Published:  1993
Resource Type:  Article
Cx Number:  CX11779

An edited transcript of a four-hour discussion held by nine progressive political economists. Discusses the hysteria around the government debt-deficit issue and the difficulty in developing counter-arguments.

Subject Headings

• Bank of Canada
• Debt
• Deficit Management
• Economic Alternatives
• Economic Policy
• Federal Budget
• Federal Deficit
• Government Debt/Deficits
• Interest Rates
• National Debt
• Neoconservativism
• Provincial Debt
• Tax Expenditures
• Taxation & Fiscal Policy
• Taxation Policy/Federal
• Taxes