How other states help students avoid debt – Appleton Post Crescent

CLOSE In a meeting with the Journal Sentinel Editorial Board and reporters, Sen. Bernie Sanders discusses his proposal for free college education. Gov. Scott Walker has proposed a 5% tuition cut for University of Wisconsin students starting in 2018.(Photo: Associated Press) Story Highlights States like Tennesee, Oregon and Minnesota have implemented programs to help students…

The new fiscal debt rules the IMF is urging for Australia to avoid mediocrity – The Australian Financial Review

Lack of spending discipline has prompted the IMF to suggests that Canberra should use a long-term debt anchor, rather than an annual deficit, to gauge success of fiscal policy. It’s taken more than a decade of abject budget failure, by both sides of politics, for the International Monetary Fund to propose a shake-up of the…

International Monetary Fund debt anchor a sinker say economists – The Australian Financial Review

After years of budget failure, the IMF wants Canberra to adopt a “debt anchor” that would increase its ability to stimulate the economy with spending. Vladimir Blinov The government and budget experts have dismissed as needless a radical proposal by the International Monetary Fund to impose a “debt anchor” on Australian politicians that would potentially…

Greece should quit eurozone, get debt relief, German party leader says – Kathimerini

Greece should leave the eurozone and then be given debt relief, the head of Germanys pro-business Free Democrats (FDP) told a German radio station on Thursday. Greece should, however, remain in the European Union, FDP leader Christian Lindner told Deutschlandfunk, so it can get subsidies to put into infrastructure or help small- and medium-sized businesses.…