During The Plague, governments doled out big payments to businesses and taxpayers to keep them afloat as the lockdowns persisted. One didn’t have to be John Maynard Keynes to anticipate the economic consequences of that largess - persistent inflation. Price increases are causing serious hardships across the industrialised world, especially in the UK and US. Stimulus efforts ran the gamut. Countries as diverse as Qatar, Finland and Slovenia, for example, had aggressive programs to help their economies. But what country had the most lavish spending package as a percentage of GDP? Well, read on.
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