Governmental Fiscal and Monetary Policies

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This paper explains the remedies sometimes used by the government in order to correct extreme fluctuations in the economy. The paper also examines former U.S. President Reagan's economic policies and the damage it caused to the country. Reagan's economic policies, the paper explains, rejected long held principles founded by famed British economist John Maynard Keynes and, in so doing, caused a resurgence of monopolies, an increase in the government and national debt, and an increase in the poverty and unemployment rates.

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"Every nation's economy goes through so-called business cycles, the extremes of which are recessions and sometimes depressions (also known as severe recessions). During these times unemployment is high and business is not operating at full capacity. In principal, the Federal Reserve's policy is to correct such cycles, by becoming counter cyclical (acting in the opposite direction of where the economy is heading). Critics who keep tabs on the Fed accuse it of not being productive because of how long it takes the Fed to act. They claim that by the time the Fed starts reducing the money supply it is already time to increase it."

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