Will the stimulus checks actually stimulate the economy?

Re: Borrow from China

Submitted on April 28th, 2008 by Joel

Hi rom:

Here's a pretty good primer on the topic. Basically, since we're deficit spending -- spending more money than we bring in in tax revenues -- the money to pay for stuff has to come from somewhere. In this case, we're borrowing a whole lot of it from China.

http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200801/fa...

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