[lbo-talk] Krugman: "The question then is why."

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Wed Jul 13 10:29:33 PDT 2011


On Jul 13, 2011, at 1:20 PM, 123hop at comcast.net wrote:


> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jordan Hayes" <jmhayes at j-o-r-d-a-n.com>
>
> The other thing to consider is this: if Summers *had* been for more
> stimulus back then, don't you think we would have gotten it?
>
> -------
> Yes, I do.

I'm sure that Obama & his political advisors said that nothing bigger - esp over the magic trillion mark - could get through Congress. As it is, he had to put in more tax cuts and less infrastructure spending than he would have liked.

Doug



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