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January 29, 2009  Stimulus Package May Yield Mixed Economic
Results  President Barack Obama's $819 billion stimulus proposal
now heads to the Senate with little GOP support. Economists
examine whether the proposed measure can succeed at its goals.
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Video  JEFFREY BROWN: As the debate in Washington moves to the
Senate, we look at some key questions: What exactly is a
stimulus plan supposed to do at a time of economic crisis such
as we're facing now? Does the enormous and, by any measure,
historic plan on the table succeed at those goals? And, if not
this, what?  We turn to two prominent economists for some
answers: James Galbraith of the University of Texas at Austin;
and Martin Feldstein of Harvard University.  Well, James
Galbraith, address that first question if yo