krugman.blogs.nytimes.com - 11/19/2008
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For the coming year, and probably well beyond, the economy will be on life support - sustained by massive fiscal stimulus. (Either that, or we'll be in a very deep slump.) But eventually the economy will have to come off life support. What will take the place of the stimulus?
I don't really ...
blogs.wsj.com - 11/18/2008
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At the start of the year, former Treasury
Secretary Lawrence Summers urged lawmakers to pass a fiscal
stimulus program that's timely, targeted and temporary. Congress and the White House concurred, enacting the $168 billion fiscal stimulus program in ...
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Summers’s New View on Stimulus: Sustained, Not Temporary
online.wsj.com - 11/24/2008
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... Interestingly enough, Krugman himself had a follow up post that admits these problems indirectly. He points out that consumer spending is still above historical norms and that it is unclear how the government temporarily increasing demand will lead to a sustainable economy without global changes. All in all it seems that he is arguing that we have to try to do something, even if there is no long term plan, because if we do nothing things will be bad. ...
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