Does Government Spending Create More Economic Growth? (Spoiler Alert: No, Silly!)
Authored by Frank Shostak via The Mises Institute,
After the 2007-2009 global financial crisis, fears of ballooning public debt and worries about the drag on economic growth pushed authorities in some countries to lower government spending, a tactic that economists now think may have slowed recovery. Note that in the United States the total debt to GDP ratio stood at 349 in Q1 this year.