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How President Obama Will Deal With the Economy in 2009.(Barack Obama)

Article from: U.S. News & World Report Article date: November 05, 2008 Author: Pethokoukis, James

Byline: James Pethokoukis

As America's 44th president, Barack Obama will have one of the most challenging "to do" lists of any new Oval Office occupant in at least a generation. But before Obama can begin implementing the key aspects of his campaign's domestic agenda--increasing healthcare insurance coverage, improving education, dealing with climate change--he must try to kick-start a struggling economy that's sinking into terrible recession.

And he must do it as quickly as possible, given the worsening job market. Some sort of fiscal stimulus package might get passed ...

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New Deal a Good Example, But Not Perfect

Posted Nov 10, 08 10:01 AM CST in Politics,  Business,  Opinion 

New Deal a Good Example, But Not Perfect
Source: AP Photo/Gerald Herbert

(Newser) – With the economy on the rocks, the New Deal is a hot topic. But FDR’s master plan almost failed, Paul Krugman writes in the New York Times, because "his economic policies were too cautious." In the end, "what saved the economy, and the New Deal, was the enormous public works project known as World War II, which finally provided a fiscal stimulus adequate to the economy’s needs."

Roosevelt’s plan balanced spending with high taxes and state and local spending cuts. “My advice to the Obama people is to figure out how much help they think the economy needs, then add 50%,” Krugman argues. “It’s much better, in a depressed economy, to err on the side of too much stimulus than on the side of too little.”

Source: New York Times

More about:  Financial Crisis • President Obama • economy • economic stimulus • Franklin D. Roosevelt • New Deal

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