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Our goal is to use this measure of fiscal impetus to examine how fiscal policy has behaved during business cycles in the past, how it responded to the most recent recession, and how it is likely to evolve over the next several years. Our analysis reveals that policy was more expansionary than average during the 2007 recession and has been significantly more contractionary than average during the recovery. By the end of 2012, fiscal impetus was below its historical business cycle average and it is forecast to remain depressed well into the future.\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/ChicagoFed-on-the-Great-Recession.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>ChicagoFed on the Great Recession<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fiscal policy describes how the expenditure and revenue decisions of local, state, or federal governments influence economic growth. 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