Ben Harris on the Fiscal Health of the US Government

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  Welcome to Macro Musings,

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  where each week we pull back the curtain and take a closer look at the most important macroeconomic issues of the past,

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  present and future.

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  I am your host, David Beckworth,

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  a senior research fellow with the Mercatus Center at George Mason University,

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  and I'm glad you decided to join us.

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  Our guest today is Ben Harris.

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  Ben is the vice president and director of economic studies at the Brookings Institution.

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  Ben has also served as a Treasury official,

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  a senior economist at the Council for Economic Advisors for President Obama,

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  and he has served in other roles in government.

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  Ben joins us today to discuss the fiscal outlook for the U.S. government,

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  how we should think about it, and what we can do about it.

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  Ben, welcome to the show.

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  Thanks for having me.

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  It's great to have you on.

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  Now, we first met at a in an event for the Committee for Responsible Federal Budget.

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  We were panelists, and I learned two things about you, Ben.

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  I think we were supposed to represent right of center, left of center,

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  but we ended up having very similar views on the fiscal outlook,

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