Hvor stimules pengene ble av.

Veronique Derugby hos reason magazine forklarer hvordan stimules pengene ble brukt etter finanskrisen i 2008. Som hun påpeker er stimules i seg selv en dårlig idé, men når staten først skulle pumpe 800 billioner dollar inn i økonomien var dette muligens den verste måten de kunne gjøre det på.

Understanding why the stimulus failed is an important step in understanding how the government can—and cannot—goose economic recovery.

None of that turned out to be true. "Even if you were to believe that government spending can trigger economic growth," says Veronique de Rugy, Reason columnist and senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center, "the money is never spent in a way that's consistent with the conditions laid out by the Keynesians for it to be efficient."