Still, it is not what we don t know about the stimulus plan that is troublesome.

So score the stimulus a very expensive, largely wasted opportunity.

His 787 billion fiscal stimulus was good.

The real danger of the new stimulus package is not ideological but environmental.

Backers of the stimulus plan now claim that things would have been much worse without ARRA.

And some of the government spending in the stimulus package will replace other outlays that would have occurred anyway.

All these factors are not only part of China s economic rescue package, but of Obama s stimulus plan as well.

The government must now dispel the remaining vestiges of the stimulus fueled over investment of 2008 2010, however painful it may be.

Why Stimulus Has Failed

The Bogey of Fiscal Stimulus

Now, with the Party s ability to manage the economy seemingly at stake, its stimulus package implies a green light to bypass environmental regulations if jobs or growth targets are in jeopardy.

Japan s annual 15 20 trillion yen infrastructure intensive stimulus didn t prevent its lost decade.

Is Stimulus Still Necessary?

There was a lot of bank rescue in economic stimulus and there was a lot of economic stimulus in rescuing banks.

Less Bang for America s Stimulus Buck

Stimulate or Die

All Stimulus Roads Lead to China

It was right to stimulate.

Consolidators versus Stimulators

Fiscal stimulus is a tricky business.

Dan Pink on the surprising science of motivation

It's an approach built much more around intrinsic motivation.

Applying the principles of human motivation to pharmaceutical education.

The true effectiveness of these packages is not clear.

A big slice of President Barack Obama s 825 billion stimulus package for the United States includes a boost to renewable energy, weatherizing a million homes, and upgrading the country s inefficient electricity grid.

In short, the US stimulus effects on spending have probably been positive but small, and without a decisive effect on the economy.

This kind of enlightened stimulus runs into strong prejudices.

Fiscal hawks also rely on history based arguments.

Government stimulus programs are limited in their ability to restore demand.

This brings us back to the premature withdrawal of fiscal stimulus.

This partly explains not only why democracies such as India and Brazil lag behind China in infrastructure, but also why China is focusing its new stimulus package on transport systems (railroad projects alone will receive more than half of the 586 billion stimulus).

Indeed, while China s new stimulus plan overwhelmingly emphasizes infrastructure, it gives short shrift to social programs, such as health care and education, even though they can reduce household saving pressure and increase private consumption.

The current stimulus and bailout plans were hatched in reaction to that dreadful week.

It is not a question of stimulus versus deficit. Both are necessary.

Fiscal stimulus is turning into fiscal austerity and a drag on growth.

The effect of economic stimulus is redoubled by this kind of inspirational belief.

Since some of the benefit (much of it in the case of small, open economies) will accrue to others, stimulus packages are likely to be smaller and more poorly designed than they otherwise would be, which is why a globally coordinated stimulus package is needed.

But the stimulus measures transformed a banking crisis into a fiscal and sovereign debt crisis.

It is all the more important that stimulus packages be channeled into relatively productive investments.

I am one of those who believe that recovery from the crisis requires fiscal stimulus.

Sensory stimulation refers to regaining sensory perception through the use of modalities.

Spinal cord stimulation Electrical stimulation of the dorsal columns of the spinal cord can produce analgesia.

Treatments included peripheral nerve stimulation, electrical muscle stimulation and electric shock therapy.

On one hand, stimulus had become a dirty word even within the Obama administration well before the Republicans mid term election victory ruled out another round altogether.

Part of the promise of the new push to European integration in the 1980 s was that it would make borrowing easier.