It is certainly true that a much larger stimulus package would create problems of its own.
Summers advised the President that a larger stimulus could actually make things worse.
White House defenders have responded that a larger stimulus would not have moved through Congress.
Most technicians advise that a larger stimulus is needed, so Congress should double the size of each check.
(In fact, it has arisen, with the current need for another, larger stimulus bill).
He did not push hard enough for a larger stimulus and more robust housing relief.
"How many bills has he passed?"This, of course, refers to Mr Krugman's impassioned pleas for a larger stimulus bill, with a greater focus on spending.
And they argue that the Senate would not have passed a much larger stimulus in 2009, given Republican opposition, regardless of the White House's wishes.
Mr. Darling might be inclined to favor a larger stimulus program, as in the United States, "if it wasn't for how poor finances are now," said Simon Hayes, an economist at Barclays Capital in London.
The question is not whether fiscal stimulus helped, or whether a larger stimulus would have helped more, but whether policymakers should rely on any model that assumes that the future follows mechanically from the past.
The green component of the much larger stimulus plan would cost at least $15 billion a year, and perhaps considerably more, depending on how the projects were defined, aides working on the package said.
