Fiscal Policy To The Rescue

Wynne Godley

Economics Policy Note Archive from Levy Economics Institute

Abstract: The U.S. expansion of the past eight years has been fueled by a rise in private sector indebtedness. In 1997 U.S. private sector spending exceeded income for the first time since 1952, and since then the gap between the two has risen markedly. The situation closely mirrors that experienced in the United Kingdom during the 1980s, when a two-year slowdown resulted in absolute declines in GDP and a three-percentage-point increase in the unemployment rate.

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