Any stimulus needs to be timely, targeted and temporary.
Economists generally urge that government stimulus efforts be "timely, targeted and temporary" a buzz phrase that Democrats repeated frequently last year.
She thinks intervention needs to be timely, targeted on specific concerns, publicly accountable and, vitally, sensitive to the vulnerability of users of services.
"This bill was meant to be a stimulus that was timely, targeted and temporary," Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the Republican minority leader, said Thursday on the Senate floor.
"In the next few days, through bipartisan negotiations, we are hopeful that we will agree on legislation that provides timely, targeted and temporary assistance".
The Fed chairman was said by others to have echoed the concept if not the precise words of economists like Lawrence H. Summers, Treasury secretary under President Bill Clinton, who have called for any plan to be "timely, targeted and temporary".
But the standard for including any initiative in the economic recovery plan is that it be "timely, targeted and temporary," while also creating jobs, Mr. Levin said recently in an address to the Congressional Internet Caucus, an advisory group.
The short-run reasons that fiscal stimulus will often fail to meet the conditions for appropriate countercyclical policy, that it be timely, targeted, and temporary are not particularly relevant now (but would be if ever the economy escaped this mess).
The next day, Japan unveiled a ¥5 trillion $51 billionn) package, much of it supposed to go directly to families and small firms.Let's get fiscalA stimulus should be timely, targeted and ideally contain credible plans for long-term fiscal health.
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