A few years later, a larger defense buildup finally provided a fiscal stimulus adequate to the economy's needs—and suddenly industry was eager to employ those "unadoptable and untrained" workers.
Sue, on the other hand, had a more difficult time satisfying her first client and she took several additional months to actually complete the assignment.
Prices are good, crowds are fewer and the dividends like expanded worldview, lifelong memories, the satisfaction of boosting the global economy—can't be easily snatched away.
Not content with that, they switched at once from scalpel to syringe and started to inject money into the economy through "quantitative easing" -buying assets with freshly created central-bank money.