Δημόσιες δαπάνες: ΔΕΝ δοκιμάστηκαν

Here’s total (all levels) government spending over the past 10 years:

Looking at this graph, if you didn’t know there had been a “massive” stimulus, would you even have suspected that there had been any stimulus at all?

And yet the failure of the stimulus that never happened has become conventional wisdom — which is what I feared would happen, two years ago, when I was tearing my hair out over the inadequacy of the original plan.
Yes, I know, it’s argued that Obama couldn’t have gotten anything more. I don’t really want to revisit all of that; my point here is simply that everyone is drawing the wrong lesson. Fiscal policy didn’t fail; it wasn’t tried.

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/14/the-great-abdication/

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Μικρή μετάφραση:
Εάν δεν ξέρατε ότι η Κυβέρνηση μοίρασε ένα τεράστιο ποσό μέσω επιστροφών φόρων στους φορολογούμενους (stimulus) πριν δύο χρόνια, κοιτώντας το διάγραμμα, θα το καταλαβαίνατε;