Bernanke: Spending Cuts Threaten Jobs, Recovery

Lew, speaking of Maxine Waters, here’s Bernanke, in response to her questioning, arguing that the $61 billion in cuts the Republicans have proposed will slow economic growth.

So on the one hand, Keynesians say the $800+ billion stimulus was not enough to bring about recovery, but on the other they say $61 billion in cuts will hurt economic growth.  I must be too unsophisticated to understand this.

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1:02 pm on March 2, 2011