Biden risks the future to juice the present

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America is about to run a pretty wild experiment. And hardly a riskless one. After the nearly $2 trillion American Rescue Plan is passed and signed, Washington will have committed more than $5 trillion in fiscal support since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. That's an amount equal to 25 percent of the pre-pandemic 2019 economy. No other country in the world is pumping money into their economy quite like the United States. Even if the ginormous ARP were half or even a quarter of its...

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