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Why We Should Have a National Infrastructure Bank
Posted on July 19, 2011February 12, 2018

Why We Should Have a National Infrastructure Bank

There are competing theories about what makes for good economic stimulus, and there are practices that work well and which don’t work very well. We know that tax cuts are not very stimulative, because they take a long time to show up in people’s bank accounts, and they are comprised of money that was already … Continue reading Why We Should Have a National Infrastructure Bank

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