British economist John Maynard Keynes famously advocated the use of countercyclical fiscal policy to smooth the business cycle, writing in 1937: “The boom, not the slump, is the right time for austerity at the treasury.” Since the election of President Trump in 2016, however, we may have been seeing a regime change in US fiscal policy…
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