A Look at Fiscal Austerity and Its Impact on the Economy

Sally Kohn: For much of the past decade, before this pandemic moment began, there was kind of this notion of austerityiscal austeritys. And then one of the things that we've seen is a the complete, seeming disappearance of fiscal austerity as the kind of guiding framework for policy. But at the same time, um, the introduction of sort of weird zombe policies, basically, you know, lockdowns, mandates, et cetera,. which seems similar in that they've utterly failed to do the thing that they were, i'm supposed to do. They've failed over and over again, and yet they continue to be rolled out; so I've always thought