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Re:Fed Ends Zero-Rate Era by jonknee on Wednesday December 16, 2015 @04:05PM (#10747328)
> And how does the government really stimulate demand?

Building things (roads, spaceships, bridges, etc), funding things (medical research, education, etc) and other obvious things. Low interest rates make longer term projects much more viable.

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Re:Fed Ends Zero-Rate Era by drumdance on Wednesday December 16, 2015 @05:52PM (#10748001)
Don't forget war. $800 billion to $2.4 trillion spent on the Iraq War depending on who's counting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_cost_of_the_Iraq_War

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Re:Fed Ends Zero-Rate Era by PaulWillis on Wednesday December 16, 2015 @06:10PM (#10748099)
> Don't forget war.

This is really the broken window fallacy.

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