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It is a kind a point of pride for me, I'm pretty good taking complex issues and to eliminate these barriers so that everyone can understand. So when I started to watch the recovery plan, I thought I had a conversation with 10 years of its creation. How can I explain and what questions would you ask? Thus, Here the imaginary conversation with Timmy, a stylish 10-year-old student of 3 º of blue freckles. I know. I'm weird.

What is the recovery plan?

It is a way for government to inject money to help turn around a economy of shit. This is done by creating jobs, jobs, and ultimately make people spend money on things like new cars, houses, investment and Xbox.

Why do we need?

1. At present Many people are unemployed or not enough work to pay their bills.
2. Due to this, they (consumers) can not spend the money to buy things, investment, savings, or pay taxes.
3. Because consumers do buy things, companies do not sell all they have to make a profit.
4. Because companies do not derive profits over people. See point 1.
5. In addition, because people are not buying combined with business investment does not benefit as many, this means that the stock market is down because business people are not worth as much as he was.
6. When the action down, people losing money that was there, they can buy things, and stay away from putting more money in the stock market for a long period. On the corporate side, companies do not have the money that is generally the sale of shares to invest in creating new things. Back to step 1 again.

How the stimulus package is expected solve this problem?

Creating new jobs —

This does this mean? More people working, more people pay taxes, more people buying things, which means that companies hire more people to do more, again and again. In the upward spiral.

How fast does it work? 1-5 years. Since most of a lot of spending on infrastructure or large construction projects will be a time for that trickle. You do not start a massive development project in a few weeks or even months. The advantage is that these projects have a higher profitability in the long-term investment. Many jobs for a long time to come. Just a little time to start.

Safeguard existing jobs —

What does this mean? The local and state governments are itinerant. Because fewer people have jobs and spend less, get less in state taxes. Less tax means they must cut programs and staff. Fewer people, more unemployment. Downward Spiral.

To How fast does it work? Immediate. These are existing jobs do things existing. You can hire again tomorrow if the government gives to states and funding local city. In addition, workers will then pay taxes on their income and buy more things. Who helps all the world.

Provide Tax Relief

What it means? If you have more money in your pocket because you pay less tax, spend more.

How fast does it work? Immediate 1 year. It depends on what type of tax cuts that are. If you are tax cuts of the employer, you see a difference in your paycheck immediately. If they are credit and taxation new year, you will not see any difference until you go pay their taxes in 2010.

A Another difficult issue in the context of tax cuts – Is $ 20 more per week in your paycheck to do something to increase spending or consumer confidence? Did you even notice? In addition, I feel that most people are not going to run out and buy a big screen again when you receive your tax return next year. My feeling is they will use to pay their debts to credit card lending students, car payments or mortgage loan balances have been hard for the past year.

Perform a better future

What does this mean? Many provisions of this package of measures designed to independence energy, smart energy networks, and education. These projects also create many jobs.

When speed does it work? 5-10 years minimum. These investments must be good, but take some time. Energy independence and effectiveness eventually relieve our dependence on foreign energy and to keep prices manageable (or at least ensure that we not buy from foreign countries) funding of education, in theory, ensure that the United States maintains more jobs, improve U.S. innovation, improve the employment rate and increase our GDP.

Helping those who struggle

The last section of the stimulus package is to help the needy. It's a Band-Aid. Because so many people are unemployed because of today, and will subsidize insurance sickness and unemployment benefits extended.

How fast does it work? Immediately.

What caused the recession to start?

To simplify: the greed and easy money. The banks have lent money too easily with the hope of larger profits, people have spent too much credit could not really afford, and businesses and individuals made risky investments in hopes of higher profits. Over time, banks lent loans 95 to 100%. This means that if you stop making payments, take their assets (what you have purchased with the loan). If the asset loses any value (think falling housing market), then the banks are stuck owning something that is not worth the money you paid for it. Because they are stuck with this asset of shit, who do not have liquidity to lend more money to others. If the bank can lend, they can obtain benefits for themselves (the interest charged on loans). The result – not end banks. Now combine that with people losing their Employment and Consumer Confidence unstable. Consequently, consumers do not buy so many things that require a loan, and does not stick money in the bank (where the bank then turns around and loans to others) vicious circle.

Other countries recovery plans?

Yup. China has its own recovery plan which was published last December. China said they spend an amount estimated at 586 billion over the next two years for construction of new railways, subways and airports and to rebuild communities devastated by an earthquake in south-west in May As a percentage of gross domestic product (how the money around the country makes the material you think) Chinese rescue is actually greater than ours.

Do we still need a stimulus package of times or have been so bad before?

Yup. Several times. Most notable is the Great Depression, which lasted from 1929 to early 1940. But there were several others who were much smaller and shorter.

A recovery plan has worked before?

Yup. But what really helped was not designed as a recovery plan exactly. Most economists say public investment HUGE in the Second World War is what we finally driven out of the Great Depression. Teddy Roosevelt issued a series of programs called the New Deal approximately 1933-1939, and began to tick up slowly since 1933 (when it was low with 25% unemployment). But it was really when we commit to World War II and essentially said, damn the price, we need the military supplies that the country has gone to construction. Because public spending in the Second World War we had a national deficit simply huge (10 times worse than it is now) with respect of our GDP. But within 4 years (from 1946 to its worst level and 1950 at its best) not only the deficit is retired from the negative, but in fact had a surplus to one of the few times in American history. Thank you much for all these new companies now pay taxes on money for everything they did, people who pay taxes on the income of these companies, and now people buy things with confidence consumer and better all the money they made.

Where is the money for the program stimulus coming?

This is an excellent question. For 31 of the last 35 years, we have a federal deficit. This means that the government is less than the expense. It's like you have $ 5000 in bills a month and earns only $ 3,000 per month. This is not the Just as the federal debt. The federal debt is money the government owes to taxpayers in other countries. It's like a credit card. You buy something now in the credit and the promise to pay later, plus some added interest expense. Debt itself is not necessarily a bad thing. But is a bad thing when one is in deficit and have no real means for fixing the deficit in the short term. To help to finance its deficit to take over the debt if the deficit increases even more. Get it? Now, how will we pay for this download U.S. $ 800 billion into the economy, then we have $ 10.7 trillion dollars in debt and still have a federal deficit of 500 billion dollars U.S.?

Option 1: We are about 50% of the proceeds from the sale of Treasury securities our U.S. consumers, businesses and banks. The Treasury sold bonds and Treasury bills us, in exchange for an interest payment. Generally, interest rates are charged fairly crap, but when the stock market is in such turmoil, many people invest in them because they are very safe (the only time I lose money in the cash security is that if the entire government will collapse, and if so, you have many more problems than losing your money).

The demand for these securities is determined by the interest the Treasury pays for the buyers.

Option 2: borrow money from other country. This is usually up to about 30% of our (debt China is the big seller these days)

Option 3: We still have 20% of these funds to be raised. Where is this going to come? It seems that nobody knows. Reassuring eh?

What are the dangers of assuming that debt?

There are many, many. A few important Tho …

Scenario 1: Demand for Treasury securities is really low. This means that the Treasury should offer interest rates high to encourage people to buy them. This could cause problems 2. First, banks have a limited amount of money to invest. If more attractive for people to use their savings to buy Treasury securities, which it is for them to lend money to people … Who will buy the securities. This would be contrary help the economy and actually make things worse.

Scenario 2: Our debt buyers as important as China are also struggling. You do not want to invest in our debt if they have their own problems.

Scenario 3: If Americans do not buy the debt, possibly other personalities in the country can expect that the problem would if China or another country as our debt? What if China decides it wants to be a bully? Imagine that the mother allows the slightest intimidation school are all you have … your bike, Lunch Money, their toys? And the only way to obtain them is whether he says it's not bad. It is something of which we speak here.

Can this really be another Great Depression?

It is a real possibility. Few people still speak, but similarities with the Great Depression are scary. Much people think that the Great Depression began from a number of things …

The Similarity 1:

Greed: The indulgence on the part of consumers and banks. After the First World War, the companies have stocks surplus and introduced the idea of credit to help sell what they had. Because people feel pretty confident after winning the war, he went Crazy to buy things on credit. It was a decade of getting rich and enjoying new fads. Credit has to buy what you really could not afford.

Similarity 2:

Stock Market Crash of 1929: In early 1920 due to consumer confidence and enormous sums of money in business, caused the first bubble in stock market for 10 years before the accident. Share prices at unrealistic too inflated over its true value. Something like they were during the 10 years for us.

Then, in 1928, or because of the accumulated debt of credit and other factors, Consumer confidence was shaken and ultimately failed. In October 1929 "Black Tuesday" in the market suffered its largest loss of 15 billion dollars in one day (imagine the amount of 15 billion dollars in 1929 when a new car for $ 250). A month later, the stock market had lost all the gains that had done over the last 2 years.

Similarity 3:

The collapse of the Bank: First of the Great Depression, many banks had extended loans to individuals, businesses, and other countries to pay their debts war. They also invest heavily in the stock market. With the recession that has arisen in the years preceding the Great Depression, people increasingly to repay their loans, the stock market collapsed and banks were in a position that has no money in hand to enable people like you and me to withdraw money from accounts. It has been more panic that ran ALL the bank to retrieve their money adds oil on the fire. Conclusion: Bank failure.

Is the stimulus package work?

I think. I hope so. The similarities with the Great Depression and its causes are too amazing to believe that is much earlier. But I think we have a chance to escape without having to go through something as serious as the Great Depression. Here's why:

Reason 1: Roosevelt's New Deal past that was very similar to the package which we speak now, but do not include nearly as largest expense. He showed real signs of progress, but finally, the enormous investment in the Second World War us out.

The new recovery plan has high price of building expenses at the beginning.

Reason 2: Not much faith and confidence Barak Obama. As consumer confidence plays a huge role in depression, with a figure of trust empowered to communicate often with people in a a clear, honest, really helps.

Reason No. 3: I hope you learned a few years on our planet and the mistakes we made in the past. I think we forget for a moment. A good slap in the head is always a useful reminder.

That's all. Hope this helped Timmy (and you all). Let's play Xbox.

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JJ Kennedy is CEO of Evil Genius TV, the small business coaching and strategy arm of Evil Genius Interactive, a web and marketing development firm located in Gainesville, FL. He is an MBA, happily married to a Veteranarian, and is hoping to have a few little ones soon.