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In reply to the discussion: STOCK MARKET WATCH -- 7 June 2012 [View all]Demeter
(85,373 posts)17. Jeffrey Sachs - How to have growth beyond stimulus
Keynesian economists blame the sluggish US growth and lack of job creation on the insufficiency of stimulus measures. If only Congress had agreed with President Obama to greater stimulus, they say, the current US recovery would have been much stronger. This is a dubious proposition. The deeper problem lay in the limitations of fiscal stimulus as a response to the 2008 crisis.
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