"GDP rose at a 1.4 percent rate in the fourth quarter. Another factor was
strong government spending, the result of the war in Afghanistan and
counter-terrorism efforts. It's
interesting to note that without the government's increase, GDP would have
been negative..."
It is money going in to the economy. Is it somehow invalidated by the fact
that it came from the government?
And isn't that also what Franklin D. Roosevelt did to mitigate the
Great Depression of the 1930's? Some say that going to war in 1940
is what really ended that depression.
Gary VanderMolen
