How important is it that there is something stimulative in the debt ceiling deal?
The European Central Bank meets next week, amid growing hopes for stimulative action by the central bank.
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That was part of the Fed's initial strategy for exiting its stimulative policy.
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Stimulative monetary policy will not cause inflation in a continually weak economy, though it will strengthen a weak economy.
Several months later, the stimulative measures work their way through the global economy.
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There are more targeted ways to do that that are more stimulative than extending the tax cuts for the rich.
What do you get when you mix negative real interest rates with stimulative money supply efforts by global central banks?
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Even with these moves, it still takes several months for the stimulative measures to take effect and work their way through.
On the other hand, Mr Obama has been careful to drop a few of the least stimulative and most contentious items.
One school of thought is that a high unemployment rate is structural and immune to the stimulative effects of monetary policy.
Even more stimulative would be to permanently change the inflation target, though that option seems far, far off the table right now.
Back in 2001, Paul Krugman received some much-deserved criticism for stating that the 9-11 terrorist attacks would be stimulative for the economy.
But, like spending reductions, they would have an anti-stimulative effect on the macroeconomy, and this could actually create a worse fiscal outlook.
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With stimulative fiscal and monetary policy bolstering domestic demand, China's current-account surplus has shrunk by two-thirds, from 10% of GDP in 2007.
So QE1 and all its successors have been neither stimulative nor inflationary.
It's stimulative for an economy that has recession written in capital letters.
Perhaps inadvertently, Barofsky revealed just how wasteful, and non-stimulative is government spending.
We got the most thunderous Just-In-Time monetary policy today that is a substitute for the absence of any degree of stimulative fiscal policy.
The betting among economists is that stimulative policy will bring the Chinese GDP growth rate back up to nine percent, its sustainable level.
It first raised taxes, in a bid to cut the growing fiscal deficit, then reversed course recently with a series of stimulative tax cuts.
The percentage who felt that monetary policy was "too stimulative" rose to 44 percent in the latest survey, up from 26 percent in September.
The latter is no doubt a problem, but as Bowyer acknowledges, there are winners and losers with any tax change no matter how stimulative.
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The profits may then be reinvested or spent, creating significant stimulative effects, but usually this happens when market conditions are strong, exacerbating unsustainable market booms.
Congress isn't ready for this initiative, but it is the most stimulative economic program available, three times the multiplier impact of checks in the mail.
Another gold member, James Dines, editor of the Dines Letter, says that the Fed's fear of deflation has prompted a highly stimulative monetary policy.
And certainly each successive round is less stimulative than the last.
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By delivering another blow to American drug and medical device companies already reeling from the effects of excessive and unwise regulation, it will actually be anti-stimulative.
Reason: Such would suggest the U.S. Federal Reserve needs to implement more stimulative measures (print more money), and that would be bearish for the U.S. dollar.
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In fact, thanks to a combination of cheap valuations, robust foreign flows, and stimulative monetary policy, Asian shares look likely to bob up quicker than most.
In conclusion, as JFK, Reagan, and Goerge W. Bush understood, reducing taxes has a stimulative effect on economic activity which leads to an increase in government reciepts.
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