a $2.3 trillion economic stimulus package, the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act. There was little planning behind it. Rather than start figuring out how to adapt businesses and employment to the pandemic, the plan simply gave out stunning sums of money to the American people. Economists sometimes refer to such blanket stimulus as “helicopter money,” since the theory is not far from the idea of just throwing money out of a helicopter flying over a city. This was the largest helicopter money experiment in the history of the United States. In his memoir, Kushner simply
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