Stimulus

Politics

Markets Shaken Over Possible End to Stimulus

Selling prompted by Japan keeping monetary policy unchanged

Reason Staff | 6.11.2013 10:36 AM

Economics

Expanded American Wealth Depends on Stimulus Boost to Home, Stock Prices

So, don't get used to it

Reason Staff | 6.7.2013 5:40 PM

Policy

Stimulus May Fuel Inflation, Warns Federal Reserve Advisory Council

And feed market bubbles

Reason Staff | 6.3.2013 3:40 PM

Economics

Sell-Off Evidence That Stock Market Now Depends on 'Stimulus'

Fundamentals remain shaky

Reason Staff | 5.24.2013 4:30 PM

Policy

Bernanke: Tightening the Fed Could Endanger Recovery

Defends aggressive actions

Reason Staff | 5.22.2013 1:37 PM

Politics

If This is What Successful Stimulus Spending Accomplishes, Go Screw Yourself

Nick Gillespie | 5.3.2013 2:37 PM

Policy

Fed May Increase Bond Purchases as Economy Sputters

It's worked so well so far

Reason Staff | 5.2.2013 4:56 PM

Green Jobs

Cost Per Job Generated by Green Car Federal Loan Guarantees

Ronald Bailey | 4.30.2013 12:20 PM

Policy

Stimulus Jobs Vanish!

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act failed to create lasting employment.

Anthony Randazzo | 4.16.2013 10:30 AM

Politics

Down the Drain

How the federal government flushed away the $833 billion stimulus

Peter Suderman | 4.15.2013 10:30 AM

Policy

Jobs Worries Keep Fed Focused on 'Stimulus'

'Cuz flooding the market with money solves everything

Reason Staff | 4.11.2013 11:56 AM

Policy

Yen at Lowest Level Since 2008 Against the Dollar

Stimulus plan hitting Japan's currency

Reason Staff | 4.8.2013 9:48 AM

Policy

Audit: Federal Stimulus Money Funded Existing Programs

Not so stimulating

Reason Staff | 3.29.2013 4:00 PM

Politics

Are You Out There, Stimulus? It's Me, The Taxpayer.

Nick Gillespie | 3.28.2013 8:39 AM

Policy

Federal Reserve May Lay Off Stimulus, Eventually

Quantitative easing or bust!

Reason Staff | 3.21.2013 12:52 PM

Policy

France Wants Room for Stimulus in EU Budget

If at first you don't succeed...

Reason Staff | 3.14.2013 4:20 PM

Policy

Little Bounce Seen From Federal Reserve Stimulus

Weak economy means inflating home and stock prices does little

Reason Staff | 3.5.2013 11:48 AM

Policy

Bernanke Stays the Course With QE3

The dollar will soon come in convenient rolls for the bathroom

Reason Staff | 2.27.2013 3:10 PM

Policy

Billions in "Stimulus" Funds Unspent on Stalled Programs

Which may not be a bad thing

Reason Staff | 2.26.2013 5:20 PM

Politics

The Failed Promise of Electronic Health Records

Peter Suderman | 2.21.2013 4:32 PM

Policy

Federal Reserve Officials Uneasy Over Stimulus

Minutes reveal concern over costs and risks

Reason Staff | 2.21.2013 3:40 PM

Politics

Tax Cut, Sequester Hypocrisy Means Never Having to Say You're Sorry Full of Shit.

Nick Gillespie | 2.21.2013 8:51 AM

Policy

Michigan Rep. Wants Audit of Stimulus-Funded Energy Projects

How much money is going to waste?

Reason Staff | 2.20.2013 5:50 PM

Policy

Stimulus Funds Used to Pay Colorado's $100 Million Internet Bill

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 2.8.2013 4:31 PM

Politics

7.66 Trillion Taxpayer Dollars Used For Stimulus And What Do We Get?

Nick Gillespie | 2.1.2013 10:41 AM

Policy

Federal Reserve Continues "Stimulus" as Economy Limps

More money down the hole

Reason Staff | 1.30.2013 7:20 PM

Policy

TN Burns $1B in Stimulus Funds on Dubious Electrical 'Smart Grid'

Engineers say it can't live up to claims

Reason Staff | 1.17.2013 4:40 PM

Politics

Are Stimulus Multipliers Higher During Times of High Unemployment? Not in the United States.

Peter Suderman | 1.4.2013 4:33 PM

Policy

Solar Firms Under Federal Investigation For "Misrepresenting" Figures in Claiming Stimulus Loans

Rachel Moran | 12.18.2012 2:24 PM

Policy

Fed Plans $1 Trillion in "Stimulus" Spending

More money down the rathole

Reason Staff | 12.13.2012 1:48 PM

Politics

It's Pretty Amazing That Economic Forecasts Went Dark the Minute After Obama Won Re-Election…

Nick Gillespie | 12.5.2012 9:16 AM

Policy

Tracking of "Stimulus" Spending Full of Reporting Errors

Spent, not spent, gathering dust ... What's the difference?

Reason Staff | 11.21.2012 4:30 PM

Politics

Alaskan Island Village Boasts New Planeless Airport and Boatless Harbor. Guess Who Paid?

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 11.20.2012 11:23 AM

Policy

The Keynesian Tradeoff: Boost the Economy Now and You'll Slow Growth Later

Peter Suderman | 11.9.2012 3:20 PM

Policy

$250M Stimulus Grant Creates Just 400 Jobs

Better to just cut a check to each new hire

Reason Staff | 10.30.2012 2:04 PM

Policy

Japan Boosts Stimulus

This strategy is working everywhere else, right?

Reason Staff | 10.30.2012 7:24 AM

Politics

3rd Quarter GDP Growth Due to Government Spending, No Reason to Celebrate

The "unexpectedly" high initial estimate of 2 percent growth in GDP is mostly due to government spending.

Nick Gillespie | 10.29.2012 9:42 AM

Politics

Reason Staffers Get Raspberry for Preferring 'The Presidential Candidate Who Would Destroy the Economy'

Matt Welch | 10.26.2012 10:06 AM

Policy

Are Economists to Blame if Obama Loses?

How's that Keynesian stuff working out for you?

Reason Staff | 10.25.2012 11:37 AM

Policy

Stimulus Funds Pay for College Research, Rather than Job Creation

Subsidies for spiders

Reason Staff | 10.1.2012 3:37 PM

Politics

Worse Than the Recession

The Obama administration has engineered a "recovery" in name only.

Tim Cavanaugh | 9.12.2012 1:30 PM

Politics

The Recovery That Wasn't

Three and a half years later, White House officials are still making wildly optimistic comments about the economy they mismanaged.

Tim Cavanaugh, Matt Welch, and Katherine Mangu-Ward | 9.11.2012 10:30 AM

Economics

Gold at Six-Month High

Hope for a third round of stimulus spending

Reason Staff | 9.7.2012 5:45 PM

Politics

Solyndra In the House at DNC

Both supporters and Cassandras of the failed green pork project represent in Charlotte.

Tim Cavanaugh | 9.5.2012 5:31 PM

Politics

Americans Too Dumb to Vote, Says Time National Correspondent

A 500 page defense of the stimulus fails to make the case that Obama is just misunderstood.

Tim Cavanaugh | 9.5.2012 4:30 PM