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- adjective Alternative spelling of
trickle-down .
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This sharing out is ostensibly carried out by a kindly invisible hand, identified long ago by the Scottish economist Adam Smith, and in recent decades referred to as "trickledown".
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Instead, it results in higher profits with the hope that those profiting will hire more domestic help and more gardeners, and produce a few jobs that way, which is known as trickledown economics.
Fixing the Economy in 90 Days -- Why I Am Looking at Running for Dodd's Senate Seat 2010
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Instead, it results in higher profits with the hope that those profiting will hire more domestic help and more gardeners, and produce a few jobs that way, which is known as trickledown economics.
Warren Mosler: Fixing the Economy in 90 Days -- Why I Am Looking at Running for Dodd's Senate Seat 2010
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For almost a decade, the American Right conducted a massive experiment in "trickledown" economics.
Robert Creamer: Two Contrasting Sets of Economic Values at Stake in Mid-Terms 2010
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For almost a decade, the American Right conducted a massive experiment in "trickledown" economics.
Robert Creamer: Two Contrasting Sets of Economic Values at Stake in Mid-Terms 2010
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For almost a decade, the American Right conducted a massive experiment in "trickledown" economics.
Robert Creamer: Two Contrasting Sets of Economic Values at Stake in Mid-Terms 2010
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For almost a decade, the American Right conducted a massive experiment in "trickledown" economics.
Robert Creamer: Two Contrasting Sets of Economic Values at Stake in Mid-Terms 2010
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For almost a decade, the American Right conducted a massive experiment in "trickledown" economics.
Robert Creamer: Two Contrasting Sets of Economic Values at Stake in Mid-Terms 2010
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We know it in the U.S. as "trickledown" economics, and it has failed.
Sign Petition for Monetary System That Puts People First 2008
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If "trickledown" has failed, so has old-fashioned Big Government.
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