Contents
List of Illustrations
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Causes of the Crash
Treasurer’s Vignette: Money Is Boring
2. Nevada’s Economy after the Crash (2011)
Treasurer’s Vignette: No Faith-based Financing
3. The Economics of Small States in Big Crises (2014)
Treasurer’s Vignette: It Is Flat
Introduction
Treasurer’s Vignette: The Mendoza Line
1. The State’s Fiscal Situation (2009)
2. State Cuts Are a Drag on the Economy (2010)
3. To Fix Nevada, We Need to Work Together (2010)
4. State Fiscal Crises, the Depression, and Now (2010)
5. Private Sector Needs a Vital Public Sector (2010)
6. Changing Our Thinking on the Budget, with State Senator William Raggio (2011)
7. Can We Find a Way Forward? (2011)
Introduction
Treasurer’s Vignette: Down for the Count
1. Nevada’s Problem Isn’t Spending (2008)
2. How Much More State Government Can Be Cut? (2009)
Treasurer’s Vignette: If the Tree Falls
3. With Override of Veto, a Sigh of Relief (2009)
4. Spending Cuts Won’t Solve Nevada’s Ills (2010)
5. Nevada’s Fiscal Structure, with Stephen Miller (2010)
Treasurer’s Vignette: Putting It on Ice
6. Taxes and State Economics, with Tom Harris (2011)
7. Is Nevada’s Public Sector Too Big? (2011)
Introduction
1. A Letter to Governor Gibbons (2009)
2. College Budgets for the Perplexed, with Bruce Shively (2009)
3. Higher Education Funding, with Bruce Shively (2009)
Treasurer’s Vignette: A Practical Man
4. Nevada Undercuts Its Future (2010)
5. Public Education Is in Short Supply (2010)
6. Cutting Budgets at the University of Nevada, Reno (2011)
Treasurer’s Vignette: A Material Form of Hope
7. A Letter to Governor Sandoval (2011)
8. Going the Wrong Way (2011)
Introduction
1. Why Hasn’t the Economy Recovered? (2011)
2. Where We Went Wrong after September 11 (2011)
Treasurer’s Vignette: Foreclosures and “The Senator”
3. We’d Forgotten What a Depression Looks Like (2011)
4. Hyperinflation? Take a Deep Breath . . . (2011)
Treasurer’s Vignette: My Staff Takes a Stand
5. What Happened to Employment? (2012)
Treasurer’s Vignette: In the Ring
6. Not the Worst Recovery (2012)
7. The U.S. Economy in an Election Year (2012)
8. Why Is Unemployment Still So High? (2014)
Introduction
1. Does Government Spending Hurt the Economy? (2010)
2. Slowing the Growth of Debt, Both Public and Private (2010)
3. Do Taxes Kill Jobs? (2010)
4. Recessions, Taxes, and the Federal Deficit (2010)
5. How Big Is Our Government? (2011)
6. Budget Deficits and the Fiscal Cliff (2012)
7. Making Cents of the Budget (2012)
Introduction
1. Nevada Needs a New Economic Mindset (2013)
Treasurer’s Vignette: Beginning with No
2. Nevada’s Housing Recovering, with Brian Bonnenfant (2013)
Treasurer’s Vignette: I May Be Wrong, but I Have No Doubts
3. The State of the State Economy (2014)
4. The State of the State Budget (2015)
5. How Big Is Nevada’s New Biennial Budget? (2015)
Treasurer’s Vignette: The Ripples of Hope
Introduction
1. Public Education Matters (2015)
2. Falling Wages for Nevada’s Team (2015)
3. Retirement Security Matters (2015)
4. Higher Education Matters (2015)
5. Financial Security Matters (2015)
6. Good Government Matters (2015)
7. Campaign Finance Reform Still Matters (2015)
8. The Problem of Poverty (2015)
9. Fighting Poverty Matters (2015)
Kate’s Vignette: The Fell Clutch of Circumstance
9. The Canopy of Hope
About the Authors
Index