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Is the stimulus real?

We can see no sign of a fresh stimulus in the government’s recent announcements that it has approved a large number of infrastructure  projects. Most were already expected to go ahead and, while the headline value of these projects is fairly impressive, the spending will be spread over the rest of this decade. The project approvals are interesting solely because the government chose to publicise them.

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