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Not surprisingly, all the aid programs, healing plans, and economic incentives attempted worldwide relied on a single, old, and familiar economic paradigm that states that the solution to the crisis lies in a combination of monetary expansion (interest rate cuts) and fiscal expansions (increase of government expanses and pouring of funds into the market). The only differences between these solutions were in the amount of money poured in and the amount of expansion taken.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>. <strong>Monetary expansion<\/strong>\u00a0manifests primarily in interest rate cuts under the assumption that increasing the supply of cheap money will encourage commercial activity and private consumption, and thus boost growth and employment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>. <strong>Fiscal expansion<\/strong>\u00a0means increasing government intervention in economic activities by increasing public expenditures, pouring funds into the market, tax cuts, and other government incentives. 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