Marketplace: How do you stimulate an economy?

Wednesday, January 9, 2008

How do you stimulate an economy?

Even though we may be a long way from the experts deciding when or if we're in a recession, Congress and the White House are working on economic stimulus plans. Doug Elmendorf of the Brookings Institution explains just how that might be done.

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