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Obama weighs ‘government spending and tax cuts’

By Krishna Guha in Washington

Published: December 28 2008 23:16 | Last updated: December 28 2008 23:16

A fiscal stimulus plan being prepared by the Obama economic team includes “both government spending and tax cuts”, Lawrence Summers, the designated head of the White House National Economic Council, said on Sunday.

In an opinion piece published by the Washington Post, Mr Summers, a former Treasury secretary in the Clinton administration, wrote: “In this crisis, doing too little poses a greater threat than doing too much.”

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