I can understand (though I disagree with) opponents of the stimulus plan who believe that the situation is not that dire that the government spending will be slow and wasteful (whereas properly targeted tax cuts would provide a more effective stimulus) and thus that it would have been better to defeat Obama s stimulus bill and try again in a couple of months.

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Now we're running a stimulus package.

Chocolate cake is a supernormal stimulus.

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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.

It's called the trillion dollar stimulus package.

Like its partners, France has launched significant stimulus measures, with a plan announced by President Nicolas Sarkozy last December, as well as public investments and early repayment of government debt. If we also take into account the strengthening of social services and legal policies launched last month, France s stimulus in 2009 totals more than 2 of its GDP, with committed future outflows equaling the US.

So I really cannot understand Barro s last paragraph The fiscal stimulus package of 2009 was a mistake. It follows that an additional stimulus package in 2010 would be another mistake...

Baseline levels are near zero, without some stimulus to cause its release.

NEW HAVEN As we digest the implications of China s 586 billion stimulus plan, it is intriguing to ponder why China chooses infrastructure, buildings, and big projects every time growth needs a boost. Should, or can, China achieve long term growth only by adding physical structures?

I can also understand (though I disagree with) opponents who believe that the short run stimulus effect of the plan will be small, while America s weak fiscal position implies a large long run drag on the economy from the costs of servicing the resulting debt.

But the stimulus that is needed on both sides of the Atlantic is a fiscal stimulus. Monetary policy has proven ineffective, and more of it is unlikely to return the economy to sustainable growth.

And for that we need fiscal stimulus ideally, the debt friendly stimulus that raises taxes and expenditures equally. The increased tax burden for all who are employed is analogous to the reduced hours in work sharing.

PRINCETON The Initiative on Global Markets, based at the University of Chicago, periodically surveys a group of leading academic economists, of varying political persuasions, on the issues of the day. Its latest roundup asked whether President Barack Obama s stimulus plan helped to reduce unemployment in the United States.

People need to believe that the money represents something more lasting than stimulus measures, which may eventually end in failure. After all, the Great Depression did not end simply because of the massive stimulus of war related expenditures.

And then we do the OPEC stimulus package also known as 200 dollars a barrel.

So we've studied sexually abused women, and about half those don't release oxytocin on stimulus.

To be effective, monetary stimulus needs to be accompanied by temporary fiscal stimulus, which is now lacking in all major economies. Indeed, the eurozone, the UK, the US, and Japan are all pursuing varying degrees of fiscal austerity and consolidation.

The key to ending the European crisis is a stimulus plan that addresses deficiencies on both the supply and demand sides. That is why Germany s refusal to help find a way to finance the proposed European investment agenda which, for a limited time, would fund productive private investment is a mistake.

So he comes over to this country, and he says, We need a big fiscal stimulus.

Since then, we got about 50 million dollars in stimulus package money to come and get here.

What we see with, say, chocolate cake is it s a supernormal stimulus to tweak our design wiring.

We found, testing thousands of individuals, that five percent of the population don't release oxytocin on stimulus.

The right balance today requires creating jobs partly through additional fiscal stimulus aimed at productive infrastructure investment.

Will near zero interest rates, financial sector bailouts, and fiscal stimulus work? What else could be done?

MUNICH Where is Angela? is the question The Economist asked when Nicolas Sarkozy, Gordon Brown, and José Manuel Barroso met to prepare a European economic stimulus plan without Chancellor Merkel being present. Indeed, Germany is currently the spoiler in the competition to provide billions to prevent a breakdown of the world economy.

In China, exports fell by more than 25 in February. Not to worry, said Premier Wen Jiabao the Chinese government has adequate ammunition to add to its 586 billion stimulus package, a plan meant to create millions of jobs via enormous government investment in transportation, energy infrastructure, housing, and other large scale projects.

Many centrists agree that an optimal fiscal policy would feature short term stimulus, a multi year medium term deficit reduction plan, and measures to reduce long term liabilities, especially if retrenchment protected growth oriented public sector investments. But that is difficult to achieve in a context of deleveraging and fixation on debt.

MUNICH Where is Angela? is the question The Economist asked when Nicolas Sarkozy, Gordon Brown, and José Manuel Barroso met to prepare a European economic stimulus plan without Chancellor Merkel being present. Indeed, Germany is currently the spoiler in the competition to provide billions to prevent a breakdown of the world economy.

So plan B, always a plan B.

The Federal Reserve will thus be able to ease monetary policy then to offset the fiscal drag. So Barro is simply wrong when he claims that although the stimulus boosts employment now, amortizing the stimulus must inevitably reduce employment at some point in the future.

Contrary to the current discourse, the long term solution must provide a stimulus to get Europe out of a deflationary vicious circle structural reform alone will not do it. The stimulus must come from the EU, because individual countries will be under strict fiscal discipline.

And some of the government spending in the stimulus package will replace other outlays that would have occurred anyway. An optimistic estimate of the direct increase in annual demand from the stimulus package is about 300 billion in each of the next two years.

Last month, China announced a 586 billion economic stimulus package, some 25 of which is to help bolster conservation, environmental protection, and renewable energy efforts. We hope that the new stimulus package helps to move China toward greener development, and that countries follow suit.

You touch yourself, there's a stimulus that comes up those very same nerves back up to your brain.

The problem is that the Geithner Plan appears to me to be too small between one eight and one half of what it needs to be. Even though the US government is doing other things as well fiscal stimulus, quantitative easing, and other uses of bailout funds it is not doing everything it should.

But, instead of investing, they are building up liquidity. Perhaps a Republican victory will boost their confidence, but in the meantime investment and employment require fiscal stimulus (monetary stimulus, by contrast, would be more likely to stimulate corporations to devour each other than to hire workers).

While some are supporting additional stimulus, others are calling for UK style austerity. But would either of these approaches reduce unemployment most effectively, or would a new round of quantitative easing (an unconventional form of economic stimulus by which the central bank purchases financial assets) work better?