#Stimulus

Feb 17, 2012
2 min

Did the Stimulus Work?

Michael Linden – Director for Tax and Budget Policy, American Progress Posted: 02/17/2012 8:40 am Three years ago today, President Obama signed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Though, at the time, everyone agreed that the economy was in serious trouble, three years on, the law — better known as the stimulus — has become incredibly controversial. President Obama’s political opponents insist that the stimulus did nothing to help the economy and some even claim that

Jay Murdock

Feb 8, 2012
2 min

What’s Their Counterfactual?

Jared Bernstein, Senior Fellow Center on Budget and Policy Priorities Posted 2/8/2012 As others have noted, conservatives who’d like bash the president on the economy are having an awfully hard time right now, as the recovery proceeds apace. Too slowly apace, for sure, but no objective observer can miss that the trend is our friend and that even the job market, while still far too weak and with conspicuous downsides (intractable long-term unemployment), is improving. So, the

Our Economic Policy Is Up a Creek With a Paddle

Jay Murdock

Sep 30, 2011
3 min

Our Economic Policy Is Up a Creek With a Paddle

Jared Bernstein – Senior Fellow, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities Posted: 9/29/11 05:13 PM ET It’s one thing to be up the creek without a paddle. It’s quite another to be stuck up the creek with a paddle that you can’t use. The latter describes where we are in terms of economic policy. The Federal Reserve is trying to do their part with more easing of interest rates, but absent more action on the fiscal side, like the measures in the president’s jobs plan, I don’t expec

Jay Murdock

Feb 23, 2011
1 min

Why Budget Cuts Don’t Bring Prosperity

The New York Times: Washington Remember the German economic boom of 2010? Germany’s economic growth surged in the middle of last year, causing commentators both there and here to proclaim that American stimulus had failed and German austerity had worked. Germany’s announced budget cuts, the commentators said, had given private companies enough confidence in the government to begin spending their own money again. Read the whole story #PoliticsNews #ObamaStimulusPackage #GopBud

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