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Stimulus was Designed to Provide Pork and Payoffs, Not to Revive the Economy

By Hans Bader – Open Market 1/24/2012

“Harvard University economist Jeffrey Miron argued that the $800 billion stimulus package wasn’t even designed to stimulate the economy, but rather to benefit special-interest groups, since it flunked even old-fashioned Keynesian policy prescriptions about how to revive the economy.”

Read the entire article: http://www.openmarket.org/2012/01/24/stimulus-was-designed-to-provide-pork-and-payoffs-not-to-revive-the-economy/