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Vital Signs: What if Biden’s $1.9 trillion stimulus plan is too big? – The Conversation AU
For once, centre-left economists are divided.
																								
												
												
											 Its not often centre-left economists disagree with each other let alone get into a stoush. But its what happened over the last week.
On February 5 former US Treasury Secretary and National Economic Council Chair Larry Summers published an opinion piece suggesting the Biden administrations US$1.9 trillion bill might be too big.
MIT economics professor and former International Monetary Fund chief economist Olivier Blanchard backed Summers on twitter, saying
I am known as a dove 
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