Paul Krugman

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Paul Krugman @paulkrugman

But the shape of the policies is different. China's stimulus is about half infrastructure spending, the other half cuts in taxes like VAT that affect ordinary families. So it's probably pretty effective stimulus 4/ — PolitiTweet.org

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Paul Krugman @paulkrugman

What about the US? We've also had a lot of fiscal stimulus from the Trump tax cut. Here's CBO's estimate of the cyclically adjusted budget balance, one widely used measure of stimulus 3/ https://t.co/jFDLHjRDQm — PolitiTweet.org

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The Trump stimulus, by contrast, consisted largely of giving corporations a big tax break and hoping that they would invest it and/or use it to raise wages. What they're using it for instead is dividends and stock buybacks. So bang for the buck much smaller 5/ — PolitiTweet.org

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