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by eli_gottlieb 4624 days ago
And strangely enough, nobody outside of neoliberal bank-interest lobbyists has actually wanted quantitative easing. Keynesians want the labor market and consumer demand propped up, social democrats want infrastructure investment towards those ends, and radicals are looking for a debt jubilee.
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Indeed, the term Keynsian has been uselessly spread to cover both New Deal style stimulus spending and printing money and giving it to the banks.

The two are not the same, they are connected only by the theory of trickle down Reaganomics.