Fiscal Policy Of The United States
Fiscal policy is considered any changes the government makes to the national budget in order to influence a nation’s economy. The approach to economic policy in the United States was rather laissez-faire until the Great Depression. The government tried to stay away from economic matters as much as possible and hoped that a balanced budget would be maintained.
After the Great Depression, economists decided that something needed to be done about the government involvement in U.S. economic affairs. The U.S. looked to the influential views of economist John Maynard Keynes to help fix the crisis the country was in, as well as to prevent it from happening again.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt first instituted fiscal policies in the United States in The New Deal. The first experiments did not prove to be very effective, but that was in part because the Great Depression had already lowered the expectations of business so drastically.
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