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Stimulus spending could cause the next economic crash

David Uren  |  May 17, 2021

By David Uren, includes “Financial Times chief economist Martin Wolf has warned that US President Joe Biden’s big-spending stimulus program risks generating a burst of inflation that could lead to a financial crisis and deep recession before the 2024 presidential election. This would bring the re-election of a triumphant and revanchist Donald Trump and spell the end of liberal democracy, according to Wolf … Even the stalwart Democrat-leaning former US Treasury secretary, Larry Summers, has criticised the Biden government’s outlays as ‘substantially excessive’ …"

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