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S6 Ep18: How much inflation did Covid fiscal support cause?

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The Advantages and Disadvantages of Fiscal Policy

Fiscal policy allows unemployment to be less, but you give people more money. If the economy is not producing more goods, then we have this standard more money chasing the same amount of goods. So that was one of the things we were trying to figure out because the fiscal support cannot do much about supply sign. And the shocks were very much both demand and supply side during the COVID recession.

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