This helps explain why our debt burden has not yet triggered what
standard economic theory would dictate: a steep decline
in the value of the U.S. dollar followed by a severe contraction of the American economy when we found we could no longer afford the foreign goods we like so much.
Our approach to valuing pensions, which considers both the generosity and the risk of pension benefits, is entirely consistent with
economic theory, the way in which liabilities of all types are valued in the private sector, public - sector accounting standards in Canada and Western Europe, academic writings, and the judgments of officials at nonpartisan government agencies such as the Congressional Budget Office, the Federal Reserve, and the Bureau of Economic A
economic theory, the way
in which liabilities of all types are valued
in the private sector, public - sector accounting
standards in Canada and Western Europe, academic writings, and the judgments of officials at nonpartisan government agencies such as the Congressional Budget Office, the Federal Reserve, and the Bureau of
Economic A
Economic Analysis.