CSPAN Capitol Hill Hearings December 7, 2012
Authors who have a very cool index of economic uncertainty. It is a very innovative paper. They estimated that the debt limit struggle probably subtracted about 1. 5 from gdp growth during that summer when it was happening egos of the uncertainty and inactivity that was caused by levels of uncertainty. Each time we go through that, there are consequences. I would like to add if that is what it takes to get spending under control, we need to concede that in the long run there will be a benefit, which means we do not have these deficits. In the fullness of time, whether a struggle last summer wa...