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When you study the money supply, it shows that the inflation risk is different than in the 2010s.
Four articles from The Conversation US archive provide context and analysis on the historic legislation.
Whether the next pandemic bailout bill is called relief or stimulus depends on what ails the US economy – and maybe it doesn’t matter at all.
Easing off when the unemployment rate is 6% would leave us worse off than we’ve been in decades.
Without spending the money Australia will have a much higher rate of unemployment than it needs for a very long time, new Grattan Institute calculations find.
Governments are throwing billions of taxpayer dollars on stimulus measures after COVID-19. But they must do it diligently, and transparently.
There is no magic money tree in economics – whatever money is spent must be paid back later.
The South African government should be spending more, not less, to boost economic growth and create jobs.
As Congress considers further financial help for victims of the coronavirus pandemic, the magnitude of the fiscal crisis that governors and their states will have to face is just starting to emerge.
Beijing might have been ultra-tough on the pandemic, but it has been horizontal in response to the economic shock.
Governments are planning a fiscal expansion worth 10% of GDP. Here’s a way of making it more effective.
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