To be effective, any stimulus program will need Europe s nations to act in concert.

An early assessment of the stimulus packages suggests that China s program has worked well.

Japan is another Asian giant regaining confidence, following Prime Minister Shinzo Abe s energetic stimulus program.

Germany should prepare its economic stimulus program now and implement it when the time comes.

Finally, we need a European economic stimulus program a Big Bargain and we need it now.

But no German economist has come out against an economic stimulus program, and many favor one.

When the second round effects hit the domestic sector in the course of 2009, a stimulus program will be needed.

The real failings in the Obama recovery program, however, lie not in the stimulus package but in its efforts to revive financial markets.

Moreover, fiscal policy will actually be contractionary in the months ahead. The fiscal stimulus program enacted in 2009 is coming to an end, with stimulus spending declining from 400 billion in 2010 to only 137 billion this year.

Fear of shuttered factories and lost wages pushed China s government last year to launch a massive stimulus program to protect jobs and restore growth.

Moreover, America s stimulus program obviously worked (notwithstanding criticism from the left for being too small, and attacks from the right for being too large).

In response to the global recession of 2008, the United Kingdom embarked on an austerity program while the United States enacted an 800 billion fiscal stimulus.

Fortunately, America has, at last, a president with some understanding of the nature and severity of the problem, and who has committed himself to a strong stimulus program.

In the wake of the global financial crisis, local governments borrowed heavily from banks to support China s massive stimulus program, amassing 10.7 trillion ( 1.7 trillion) worth of debt by 2011.

The US economy needs a second round of fiscal stimulus in the short term to make up for low private demand, together with a credible long term fiscal consolidation program.

When the first arrow of Abenomics a fiscal stimulus program was launched nearly two years ago, asset markets' immediate response was positive. The second arrow of Abenomics monetary easing intensified these effects.

And the cost of carrying the extra debt incurred is extraordinarily low 12 billion a year of extra taxes would be enough to finance the fiscal stimulus program at current interest rates.

China s Visionary Stimulus

Debt Friendly Stimulus

The Stimulus Ostriches

Europe s Hidden Stimulus

Why Stimulus Has Failed

Is Fiscal Stimulus Pointless?

Is Stimulus Still Necessary?

The Poverty of Stimulus

But the stimulus that is needed on both sides of the Atlantic is a fiscal stimulus.

But the stimulus effect of quantitative easing is far less certain than even that of fiscal stimulus.

The Bogey of Fiscal Stimulus

The Case for Fiscal Stimulus

And for that we need fiscal stimulus ideally, the debt friendly stimulus that raises taxes and expenditures equally.

There is much greater scope for fiscal stimulus to boost growth, and much smaller scope for monetary stimulus.

All Stimulus Roads Lead to China

Fiscal stimulus is needed as well.

Less Bang for America s Stimulus Buck

America needs a big stimulus package.

Fiscal stimulus is a tricky business.

We all know that the stimulus that triggers an emotion causes that emotion to last long after the stimulus is gone.

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

His 787 billion fiscal stimulus was good.

But fiscal stimulus merely aggravated the problem.

The enormous investments launched in China s interior as part of the government s stimulus program following the 2008 global financial crisis have now become a burden and are increasingly showing up as bad debt on the balance sheets of the country s banks.

The end of the stimulus itself is contractionary.

The necessary policy actions involve aggressive macroeconomic stimulus.

A second fiscal stimulus package is therefore likely.

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