According to the article, Administration officials have claimed that the stimulus program has supported 50, 000 jobs.
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And some say it's not, but there needs to be a second stimulus program of some sort.
As austerity is the mood of the federal government, it is doubtful another massive stimulus program is coming.
One way to think of the federal government is as a Keynesian stimulus program pumping material to comedians.
If the tax provisions of the stimulus program will not fix the economy, neither will the spending programs.
Obama's remarks came after meeting with Vermont Gov. Jim Douglas, a Republican governor who supports the economic stimulus program.
Market participants are waiting to see if he will conduct another stimulus program in light of slowing economic growth.
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Hope is receding that in the short or intermediate term the Obama stimulus program will put a floor under the market.
Market watchers who expect the Fed to announce some sort of stimulus program said that could benefit all markets, including metals.
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In fact, there are countless librarians, faculty and staff members there who have their jobs today thanks to the stimulus program.
Fourth, China's stimulus program is resulting in the building of new factories.
Their mantra is that a stimulus program be targeted, timely and temporary.
That piggybacks on the stimulus program's efforts to stimulate advanced battery production.
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Moreover, in 2008, a nearly trillion yuan stimulus program had developers building up China residential properties in hopes that the urban trend would spike.
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The market was down even after the Federal Reserve Bank reaffirmed its plan to continue its stimulus program, which is now five years old.
And inflation worries sparked by the Federal Reserve's stimulus program have ebbed, disappointing some investors who bought gold as a hedge against broad-based price increases.
Obama, with his near trillion-dollar stimulus program, would make FDR proud.
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The best stimulus program would be to free the international marketplace.
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This negative feedback explains how a stimulus program can backfire.
China's government is planning on an eightfold expansion of its budget deficit this year, to around 3% of gross domestic product, to fund the stimulus program.
Yet money velocity may pick up quickly when companies sell off the last of their inventories and Uncle Sam's massive stimulus program gets consumers spending again.
There are questions whether a third stimulus program will be launched in light of softer economic data and comments on this subject could come on Tuesday.
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Japan, unlike nearly every other major economy, did not embark on an aggressive, currency-debasing monetary or fiscal stimulus program during or after the global economic crisis.
And, these will have to be paid out of a GDP that will be lower than it would have been if the stimulus program had never happened.
It is possible to calculate from the two unemployment curves approximately how many job-years of temporary employment Romer and Bernstein were forecasting would be created by their stimulus program.
Exacerbating worries about the Fed easing up on its stimulus program, China's State Council said on Wednesday that it would continue with market controls to curb increases in property prices.
They are taking to task the Obama administration's stimulus program and health care initiative, and say Congress is not giving constituents enough information about where their tax money is spent.
Going forward, we believe that growth in the Chinese auto market will remain bumpy until the government renews its stimulus program in light of worrying global economic environment after reigning in inflation.
When the recovery stumbled in the summer of 2010, the central bank of the U.S., the Federal Reserve, rode to the rescue with its QE2 stimulus program, putting the recovery back on track.
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