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Supply sider now believes fiscal stimulus leads to GDP growth

A victory of sorts, for Keynesian economics, and ultimately, for the American people.

Earlier this year author Amity Shlaes, who is a conservative and not a Keynesian, was a member of the chorus of market absolutists and conservative economists who opposed the U.S. government's fiscal stimulus package, on philosophical grounds: government spending doesn't stimulate the economy. (Shlaes should talk to automakers based in the U.S. about that one, particularly amid the 'cash for clunkers' fiscal stimulus plan.)


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