Concerns that policymakers in developed countries do not have the tools to fight the next downturn are generally misplaced. There is plenty more they could do. The constraints will instead be reluctance to prolong the adverse side-effects from the use of unconventional monetary policy tools and unease about pushing government debt even higher.
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