Holding rates of interest far below market levels (which is the goal of stimulus) alters patterns of consumption, savings, and investment.
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"You can judge these policies by their goal, and it's very much a goal of short-term stimulus, " Souleles says.
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If stimulus is the goal, it would be orders of magnitude more effective to reverse the tax cuts and temporarily increase spending for targeted job creation, unemployment insurance, infrastructure or aid to state and local governments.
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The stimulus plan looks like it will help only with the first goal--if it helps at all.
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Loth to give up its goal of balancing the budget by 2011, Germany was at first reluctant to adopt a fiscal stimulus.
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