SINGAPORE (Reuters) - The United States should be planning for a possible second round of fiscal stimulus to prop up the economy, a member of the U.S. government's economic advisory panel said Tuesday.
"We should be planning on a contingency basis for a second round of stimulus," said Laura D'Andrea Tyson, a member of the panel advising President Barack Obama on tackling the economic crisis.
Addressing a seminar in Singapore, Tyson said she personally felt the first round of stimulus aimed to prop up the economy had been slightly smaller than she would have liked.
The first stimulus package amounted to $787 billion (484 billion pounds). Tyson said a possible second round should be directed towards infrastructure.
(Reporting by Vidya Ranganathan; Editing by Jan Dahinten)
