So Mr Williamson's plan sits best with the view that fiscal policy should also have a strong counter-cyclical role.

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Once countries can no longer use monetary policy to moderate national highs and lows in economic activity, fiscal policy will need to assume a greater, nationally differentiated, counter-cyclical role.

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