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woodwardhall.wordpress.com - 12/11/2008

Financial Crisis and Recession

— woodwardhall.wordpress.com — The Obama administration’s focus on infrastructure spending raises the natural question of the effect of government purchases... on total GDP. Does government spending stimulate other categories of spending, especially consumer spending? Or does ... (more) Financial Crisis and Recession

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telegraph.co.uk - 12/12/2008

Switzerland may have to print money to stave off deflation

— telegraph.co.uk — The Swiss National Bank has cut interest rates to 0.5pc and opened the door for emergency stimulus... becoming the first country in Europe to flirt with zero policy rates. (more) Switzerland may have to print money to stave off deflation

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gregmankiw.blogspot.com - 12/11/2008

Spending and Tax Multipliers

— gregmankiw.blogspot.com — A key issue facing the new Obama administration is to what extent the economic stimulus should take... the form of spending increases versus tax cuts. One way to think about the issue is the size of the fiscal policy multipliers. The multipliers measure ... (more) Spending and Tax Multipliers

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Fed Watch: What If the Analogy is Wrong?
Economist's View — ... Simply a race down, or a race to the bottom? My challenge is that lacking an adjustment of the external imbalance, I can easily see that the current policy path becomes a dead end. Emphasis on “dead.” Yves Smith lays out an alternative scenario that reminded me of old concerns: ...

Stimuli And Global Balance
Moon of Alabama — ... little, while others, China, Germany, Japan, ... produced for exports and saved. There is an imbalance between those groups which will have to be adjusted one way or another. When Krugman prescribes stimulus for both sides of the game there is something wrong with his thinking. Stimulus on both sides of the scale can not help to regain a balance. It only freezes the current situation. So should the U.S. do a Keynsian stimulus at all? As Yves Smith argues it is probably the wrong thing to do: The US in the 1920s was the world's ...

wheelbarrow stocks
Blood & Treasure — ... Amusing, but basically the kind of thing people come up with as an investment proposition on Dragon’s Den, until one of the resident smartarses points out that they could just put it on their card. And it does raise the question of how you get the money to the shop to buy the wheelbarrow. Then again, wheelbarrows could be a useful adjunct to the shortly to be booming grow your own food sector. Though other people are betting on deflation.