Must-Read: Matthew Yglesias: Financial markets are begging the US, Europe, and Japan to run bigger deficits

Must-Read: Matthew Yglesias: Financial markets are begging the US, Europe, and Japan to run bigger deficits: “The international financial community wants to lend money this cheaply…

… [so] governments should borrow money and put it to good use. Ideally that would mean spending it on infrastructure projects that are large, expensive, and useful–the kind of thing that will pay dividends for decades to come…. But if you don’t believe there are any useful projects or if your country’s political system is simply too gridlocked to find them, there are easy alternatives. Do a broad-based tax cut…. The opportunity to borrow this cheaply (probably) won’t last forever, and countries that boost their deficits will (probably) have to reverse course, but while it lasts everyone could be enjoying a better life instead of pointless austerity.