The Daily Show suggests that having more frequent elections may be the best way to stimulate economic growth.
(This clip appeared on October 11, 2012. To get suggestions on how to view clips of The Daily Show and The Colbert Report outside the US, please see this earlier post.)
And I always thought it was something else 🙂
https://helda.helsinki.fi/handle/10138/27239
Title: Male Organ and Economic Growth: Does Size Matter?
Author: Westling, Tatu
Helsinki Center of Economic Research (HECER) discussion papers
As noted in the video, election spending has gone through the roof. But where are the jobs? Unemployment has barely dipped under 8%.
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Some forms of spending are better than others at stimulating the economy (multiplier effect), and election spending just doesn’t seem to be doing the job.
I think the whole thing was tongue-in-cheek.