Thursday, December 17, 2009

Stock Rally Means Lower Stimulus Need

“The stimulus is only a third spent, and its order of magnitude is not large enough to compare with the strength and power of the remarkable global equity increase that’s occurred since early March,” Greenspan, 83, said in a telephone interview yesterday from Washington. “Capital gains have proved a far greater stimulus than one can attribute to the $787 billion program that has been only partially spent.”

Dec. 17 (Bloomberg)

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