economic stimulus
Government spending injection
Economic stimulus refers to government policies designed to boost economic activity during downturns or recessions.
This typically involves increased government spending, tax cuts, or monetary measures like lowering interest rates.
The goal is to encourage consumer spending and business investment: The stimulus package included direct payments to households.
Critics debate whether such interventions help or create long-term problems.
- tax cutsDecreased government assessments
- trickle downSpread gradually to lower levels
- government spendingState allocation of funds
- spending billLaw authorizing government expenditures
- bailoutEmergency aid preventing bankruptcy
subsidies · quantitative easing · consumer confidence · Main Street · infrastructure investment · shovel ready · unemployment benefits · job creation · cash for clunkers · currency devaluation · GDP growth · countercyclical · deficit financing · public works programs · pump priming · monetary policy · inflation control · fiscal policy
- economicssupply and demand, inflation, GDP, GNP, gross domestic product
- economic policymonetary policy, tax policy, fiscal discipline, fiscal restraint, tariff
- government spendinggovernment spending, federal budget, expenditures, allocations, military spending
- macroeconomicsGDP, GNP, gross domestic product, gross national product, inflation rate
- rescuerescue, rescue team, search and rescue, rescue dog, save
- fiscal policybudget deficit, deficit spending, national budget, budget surplus, budget deficits
economic stimulusausterity
Enforced economic stringency
fiscal austerity · austerity measures · budget cuts · spending cuts · fiscal restraint
economic stimuluseconomic contraction
Decline in monetary activity
recession · economic slowdown · economic depression · economic decline · stagnation
economic stimuluseconomic contraction
Decline in monetary activity
recession · depression · economic downturn · economic slowdown · deflation