Wait A Minute! The Fiscal Cliff Is A Good Thing

by Howard, Raymond and Jesse Richman.  The entire discussion of the "fiscal cliff" has things a bit backward.  People talk of "going off" the fiscal cliff -- and the natural image is of the disaster that awaits one who tumbles from the edge of a precipice.  Instead, perhaps we should say "running into" the fiscal cliff -- the cliff being a force that stops   ... MORE