The $13 trillion question : how America manages its debt / David Wessel, editor.
The underexamined art and science of managing the federal government's huge debt.Everyone talks about the size of the U.S. national debt, now at 13 trillion and climbing, but few talk about how the U.S. Treasury does the borrowing-even though it is one of the world's largest borrowers. Eve...
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| Alternate Title: | Thirteen trillion dollar question |
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| Online Access: | Electronic book from JSTOR |
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: | Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, [2016] Ã2016 |
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Table of Contents:
- Preface / Robin Greenwood, Samuel G. Hanson, and David Wessel
- 1. The optimal maturity of government debt / Robin Greenwood, Samuel G. Hanson, Joshua S. Rudolph, and Lawrence H. Summers. Comments by Janice Eberly, Brian Sack
- 2. Debt management conflicts between the U.S. Treasury and the Federal Reserve / Robin Greenwood, Samuel G. Hanson, Joshua S. Rudolph, and Lawrence H. Summers. Comments by Mary John Miller, Paul McCulley, Stephen G. Cecchetti, Jason Cummins
- 3. A new structure for U.S. federal debt / John H. Cochrane. Comment by Darrell Duffie
- 4. Concluding observations / Lawrence H. Summers.