Paul Krugman feels we need a bigger stimulus package. Since the recession began, the U.S. economy has lost 6 ½ million jobs — and as that grim employment report confirmed, it’s continuing to lose jobs at a rapid pace. Once you take into account the 100,000-plus new jobs that we need each month just to [...]
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Stimulus Packages From Around the World
Since all our countries (sans Germany) are offering stimulus packages these days, I thought I would see how they stack up against each other. The American one is by far the biggesest while Iceland’s economy took the hardest hit. Many economists believe a lot of the figures being announced involved a mixture of truly new [...]
