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Originally Posted by heep223
Care to elaborate? The ruling party tables legislative and fiscal policy no? (I am not that educated in this)
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Banking regulations and monetary policy are shaped with almost always long term effects. The biggest reason we weren't swept up in the crisis were our banking regulations which are in effect for decades.
Assigning credit or blame to recent governments for economics is almost always a fools game. Trends are usually from many different factors and governments really can't change things much (without destroying things) short term.
For example, how long did it take to see the benefit of the infrastructure spend from the conservatives? A long, long time if at all