Balanced fudge-it
16 August 2011

Sarkozy and Merkel like them, and they feature in America, too. But politicians often fudge the numbers, or just change the rules. Nonetheless, in reasonably honest systems such laws slow the build-up of deficits. Perhaps as importantly, they also stigmatize bad behavior.
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