Is a 789 Billion dollars matchstick big enough to relight the US economy?

摘要

Flow big a fire will a 789-billion dollars matchstick light and will it be hot enough to loosen the U.S. economy from the icy grip of a recession the scale of which it hasn't experienced since the Great Depression? With the ink long dry on the economic stimulus package signed into law by President Obama on Feb. 1.7, metals industry players are busy calculating to what degree and how soon the program will translate into real-world results and onto their bottom line.