This is a good example of the way in which differential calculus shows up all the time in economics. The budget deficit is the derivative of the national debt. The change in employment is the derivative of the unemployment rate. Barney Frank is talking about the second derivative in that quote.
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Date: 2009-09-04 06:45 pm (UTC)