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Helicopter Money Is in the Air

Fiscal policy has been out of fashion since 2010, if not longer. But now that unconventional monetary-policy measures have failed to deliver more than mediocre outcomes, policymakers have started mooting ideas for unconventional fiscal policy.

LONDON – Fiscal policy is edging back into fashion, after years, if not decades, in purdah. The reason is simple: the incomplete recovery from the global crash of 2008.

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