For the record, in neither case (Great Depression or the latest crisis) did the government spend anywhere close to the amount of money that the economic theory of government stimulus truly calls for to solve the problem (though most calculations estimate that WWII made up that gap almost exactly), so that particular theory has never really been tested.
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