Hans Jørgen Whitta-Jacobsen, the head of government-seated advisory panel De Økonomiske Råd, agrees with the consensus among economists that the economy could be brightening (see above), but dissents from the majority opinion that new stimulus efforts were unnecessary. Whitta-Jacobsen calculated the government had room to spend as much as 12 billion kroner on stimulus efforts, and warned against anything that would reduce the amount of money used to help shore up the economy. “We haven’t seen anything that changes our fiscal policy recommendations,” he said. – Børsen