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Should the government use economic stimulus to aid the country during times of recession?

An economic stimulus is a monetary or fiscal policy enacted by governments with the intent of stabilizing their economies during a fiscal crisis. The policies include an increase in government spending on infrastructure, tax cuts and lowering interest rates. In 2016 Justin Trudeau proposed a stimulus package which he claims will raise GDP by 0.5 per cent and create 100,000 jobs.

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Response rates from 28.4k Canada voters.

83%
Yes
17%
No
68%
Yes
14%
No
5%
Yes, but in the form of tax breaks for all citizens
2%
No, recession is a natural cycle that purges excess
3%
Yes, but in the form of increased spending on infrastructure
1%
No, and the government should drastically reduce spending during recessions
2%
Yes, the government should intervene to boost a recovery
2%
Yes, but in the form of assisting sectors most heavily hit by the recession
2%
Yes, but in the form of tax breaks for low income citizens
1%
Yes, and collectivize all industry

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 @9FQB6TFfrom Manitoba  answered…3yrs3Y

Tax breaks for all working people.

 @B4VB3F3from Ontario  answered…1yr1Y

Yes, and collectivize all industry, and the government should intervene to boost a recovery, and in the form of increased spending on infrastructure and in the form of assisting sectors most heavily hit by the recession and in the form of tax breaks for all citizens especially low income citizens, and wherever possible the government should drastically reduce spending during recessions

 @B4TXJ28 answered…1yr1Y

Yes, but only in the form of spending on infastructure products to support national economy as long as goverment spending is down to other countries

 @B4PPBZNfrom Ontario  answered…1yr1Y

Yes but in the form of tax breaks and if necessary a total freeze on mortgages and loans with no penalties or accumulated interest. The BANKS should thrive or suffer with the rest of us

 @B4ND9T9from British Columbia  answered…1yr1Y

As the recession is caused by the government and the lower and middle classes are most impacted by the recession, yes the government should step in to help those classes. But the government has a responsibility once the recession is over to balance the books and reduce the deficit caused by the incentives.

 @B35Q7K5answered…1yr1Y

Yes, but a combined effort of tax breaks for low income people and small business/ entrepreneurs, and job creation by improving infrastructure ie. sustainable housing

 @9WYDMSDfrom British Columbia  answered…2yrs2Y

Yes, we can do more than 1 thing at a time, we can collectivize industry that has collapsed from the private sector, turn it around to become profitable and fund social programs but also as a right away thing protect thousands of jobs. tax breaks, spending more repairing infrastructure to attract businesses, assisting other failing sectors with wage subsidies and mortgage/rent freezing/coverage. theres a lot we can and should do to stop the awful symptoms of recession.

 @9RZPX67from Alberta  answered…2yrs2Y

as long as it goes to support the 60% of canadian who actually create the jobs, not govt consulting contracts

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   @lemans3427 from California submitted…2yrs2Y

Commercial Real Estate Crisis Threatens Global Economy

Recent global events have sparked fears of a commercial real estate crisis in Europe, mirroring situations in Japan and the US. Notably, Deutsche Pfandbriefbank AG faces significant downturns due to the real estate market's weakness.The past week has witnessed significant downturns in the stock values of several banks worldwide, particularly those with substantial exposure to commercial property loans. Mirroring unsettling developments in Japan and the United States, Europe is now facing the prospect of an emerging commercial real estate crisis. Some senior officials at the European Central Bank say Germany will inevitably be a special focus as they examine CRE risks at banks across the region.“There is more pain to come in real estate valuations, so what does that mean for lenders and does that mean there is the potential for a crisis?”German banks have the most commercial real estate loans in the European Union, along with their French peers, but they have classified a relatively small portion of those loans as non-performing. Recently, however, that share has been rising while it declined in several other countries.“This is definitely not just a US problem,” said Valeriya Dinger, a professor of economics at Germany’s University of Osnabrueck. “I wouldn’t be surprised if we see a wave of loan loss provisions for German banks on their domestic commercial real estate exposure,” she said, even if there’s no systemic risk.German property values are particularly vulnerable to higher borrowing costs because capitalization rates — or the potential return on a real estate investment — were pushed lower there than in other markets during the cheap money era. That reflected in part the fact that yields on German government bonds, a benchmark for investors, were negative at the time.

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 @ISIDEWITH submitted…2yrs2Y

China Creates A Global Economic Shock

The first China shock came after a series of liberalizing reforms in China in the 1990s and its accession to the World Trade Organization in 2001. For U.S. consumers, this brought considerable benefits. One 2019 paper found that consumer prices in the U.S. for goods fell 2% for every extra percentage point of market share grabbed by Chinese imports, with the biggest benefits felt by people on low and middle incomes. But the China shock also piled pressure on domestic manufacturers. In 2016, Autor and other economists estimated that the U.S. lost more than two million jobs between 1999 and 2011 as a result of Chinese imports, as makers of furniture, toys and clothes buckled under the competition and workers in hollowed-out communities struggled to find new roles. A sequel of sorts appears to be under way. China’s economy expanded 5.2% last year, a subdued rate by its standards, and is expected to slow further as a drawn-out real-estate crunch crushes investment and consumers rein in spending. Capital Economics, a consulting firm, thinks annual growth will slow to around 2% by 2030. Beijing is seeking to engineer an economic turnaround by plowing money into factories, especially for semiconductors, aerospace, cars and renewable-energy equipment, and selling the resulting surplus abroad. Protectionism might shift some of the deflationary impact to other parts of the world, as Chinese exporters look for new markets in poorer countries. Those economies could see their own fledgling industries shrivel in the teeth of Chinese competition, much as the U.S. did in an earlier era.

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Should the government incentivize the construction of affordable housing?

Yes

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