How big spending got its groove back
The positive role played by the US federal government during the pandemic helped legitimise an active role for government in general.
Paul Krugman
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The way it was: Some years ago, I attended a meeting in which President Barack Obama asked a group of economists for unconventional policy ideas. I distinctly remember him saying: “Don’t tell me that I should spend a trillion dollars on infrastructure. I know that, but I can’t do it.”
The way it is: Top Democrats have agreed on a proposal to spend $US3.5 trillion ($4.7 trillion) on public investment of various kinds, to be passed via reconciliation on top of a $US600 billion bipartisan plan for physical infrastructure spending. And some news reports are treating this deal as a defeat for the left, because Bernie Sanders proposed spending even more.
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