The Second Coming of Keynes
When confronted with the fact that Keynes' solutions would never work in the long run, he would dismissively say, "In the long run, we're all dead."
When confronted with the fact that Keynes' solutions would never work in the long run, he would dismissively say, "In the long run, we're all dead."
Fed economists — like mainstream macroeconomics in general — are intellectually bankrupt and clueless at best or dishonest propagandists at worst.
The requirements for wealth creation are simple: a favorable business climate free from overbearing regulation and a belief that the earnings from hard work and risk taking will not be confiscated by a government bent on the redistribution of income.
We have rejected the enrichments of a healthy capitalism in favor of an impoverishing government-run fascism. We have resurrected another great depression — and made America the crisis leader of the world, instead of, what it once was, the beacon for world prosperity.
There are only inflationists on Capital Hill and Obama has a bigger bag of boondoggles than FDR could have ever imagined.
Even if the "debt deflation" scenario is generally right, the absolute effect could be swamped by the relative effects, meaning that retirees on fixed dollar incomes could still get wiped out when their standard monthly expenses rise.
Government spending merely directs scarce factors of production away from their most productive uses.
The Federal Reserve System and those in charge of it at during the real estate bubble bear responsibility for major harm to tens of millions of Americans.
As it turns out, Krugman's apologists shouldn't demand more context for his notorious quotes, since it only shines even more light on how confused and backward he is as an economist.
The Keynesians have no leg to stand on.