stimulus spending
Government economic boost
Stimulus spending is government expenditure intended to boost economic activity during downturns.
The theory holds that injecting money into the economy—through infrastructure projects, tax rebates, or direct payments—increases demand and creates jobs, helping to pull a country out of recession: The stimulus spending kept unemployment from rising further.
- fiscalOf public revenue
- bailoutEmergency aid preventing bankruptcy
- recessionProlonged economic decline
- deficitAmount still owed
- recoveryRegaining what was lost
infrastructure · cash for clunkers · Keynesian · demand side · injection · economy · boost · jobs · relief · packages · trillion · government · debt · Congress · New Deal · trickle down · shovel-ready · multiplier
- economic policymonetary policy, tax policy, fiscal discipline, fiscal restraint, tariff
- government spendingfederal budget, expenditures, allocations, federal aid, state aid
- Policyeconomic policy, public policy, energy policy, tax policy, domestic policy
- public spendingbudget allocation, national budget, federal budget, budget deficit, education funding
- economicssupply and demand, inflation, GDP, GNP, gross domestic product
- fiscal crisesdebt crisis, budget crisis, fiscal crisis, fiscal emergency, budget deficit
stimulus spendingausterity
Enforced economic stringency
austerity measures · budget cuts · spending cuts · fiscal austerity · belt-tightening
stimulus spendinglaissez-faire
Noninterference in commerce
fiscal conservatism · supply-side economics · monetarism · Austrian economics · trickle-down economics
stimulus, spending, stimuli, stimulate, stimulated, stimulating, stimulation, stimulant, stimulants