Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Does stimulus merely steal sales from the future?

Before the home-buyer subsidy disappeared, there was an increase in mortgage applications to take advantage of it.  This policy mainly served to "steal" home sales from the future.

Critics of Keynesian stimulus would say that this shows that stimulus doesn't work, or merely shifts future consumption to the present, with no long run effect.  

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