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Democrats Are About to Spend, Spend, Spend - But It Won't Help Much

A certain amount of Keynesian pump-priming, of the right sort, won't do any harm - but it probably won't do much good either.

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A certain amount of Keynesian pump-priming, of the right sort, won't do any harm—but it probably won-t do much good either.

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"We are all Keynesians now," said President Nixon in the early 1970s, as he came to terms with deficit financing and a prices and incomes policy inspired by...

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