Some money will undoubtedly go directly into taxpayers' pockets, as part of the plan is to stimulate consumer spending.

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So what we want to do is create incentives that stimulate consumer spending, because folks buy materials from home improvement stores like this one, which then buys them from manufacturers.

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The Fed justified its second round of quantitative easing partly on grounds that the wealth effect of rising stock prices would stimulate consumer spending and, by extension, boost output and reduce unemployment.

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The best way for China to stimulate real consumer growth and spending is to remove the barriers to growth for the Chinese private sector, so that they obtain needed capital to grow at home in China.

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He is known chiefly for his 1930s advocacy of deficit spending to stimulate consumer demand.

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Mr Wood argues that China is doing more to boost domestic consumption (for example, through incentives to stimulate purchases of cars and consumer durables, and increased health-care spending) than America is doing to boost its saving.

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Moreover, the steps the central government has been taking to stimulate exports like holding down the value of the renminbi inevitably discourage consumer spending.

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Because consumer spending is by far the largest component of GDP and it is weak, we must stimulate it.

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