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Stimulus: How to Know If It’s Working

February 11, 2009 BUSINESS WEEK Consumer confidence and job creation may be slow to emerge and hard to measure, but boosts in umemployment benefits and food stamps will be fast acting By Moira Herbst At his first prime-time press conference, President Obama was asked a central question about the $800 billion-plus economic stimulus package: How […]

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Paul Krugman: “On the Edge”

February 6, 2009 Op-Ed Columnist THE NEW YORK TIMES On the Edge By PAUL KRUGMAN A not-so-funny thing happened on the way to economic recovery. Over the last two weeks, what should have been a deadly serious debate about how to save an economy in desperate straits turned, instead, into hackneyed political theater, with Republicans […]

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