Amity Shlaes, Bloomberg

Disasters Create Big Government

Once government spending rises, often to address an emergency at home or abroad, the spending doesn’t recede. High water becomes the new normal, until the next emergency, when a second rise comes, as an economist named M. Slade Kendrick noticed as far back as 1955.

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