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In the New York Times, Bruce Bartlett suggests that the upcoming Defense budget sequester might give Republicans a chance to flex Keynesian muscles they forgot they had:

Indeed, some economists have argued that military spending has in fact been the primary vehicle through which Keynesian economics has operated during the postwar...

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