“Stimulus”

A drug best taken rarely:

I should add, I guess, that I’m not as sure as some that borrowing and spending a little more in a downturn as severe as this one is such a dreadful idea. The point is to put some kind of bottom on a deflationary spiral. But I sure am more interested in Austrian economics than I used to be, and certainly hope that we can at some point return to a saner fiscal regime.