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To: Oeconomicus who wrote (131304)9/16/2001 1:21:16 PM
From: re3  Read Replies (5) of 164684
 
in barrons this weekend they mention something called the broken window concept...surely, a broken window adds to GDP, heck the person who has a broken window has to pay the local hardware store or whoever to fix it...

so lets say that it costs 50 bucks to fix a broken window, and that 50 bucks is added to the GDP...why not, following along, break all the windows in the country...that will get things rolling, huh ?

except the money has to come from SOMEwhere to fix these windows...
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