As the US election campaign heats up, the most important issue for voters will most likely be whether the economy is recovering fast enough. Have fiscal stimulus and monetary expansion generated growth, or merely run up more debt and placed price stability at risk? Project Syndicate’s economists assess the health and future prospects of the world’s largest economy.
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