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Counting Stimulus Efforts

Posted in Budget, Economy, History, Macroeconomics, tagged , , , , on July 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Today, the Washington Post has a letter to the editor about counting stimulus efforts. I think the letter is pithy and on-point, but that might be because I wrote it. Anyway, my conclusion is: [T]here have already been two rounds of stimulus since the recession started in December 2007. The first, enacted in February 2008 [...]

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We Already Did a Second Stimulus

Posted in Budget, History, Macroeconomics, Politics, tagged , , , , , on July 6, 2009 | 7 Comments »

Much ink, both physical and electronic, has recently been spilled on the question of whether the United States should undertake a second stimulus. To which there is only one possible answer: we already did a second stimulus. The first stimulus — the Economic Stimulus Act of 2008 — was signed by President Bush in February [...]

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