Quote from thriftybob:
Watch what the elephants DO, not what they say or don't say.
The elephants, are of course the Federal Govt and Fed, both hopelessly buried in the results of 75 or so years of Keynesian economics. We will soon live in its wake.
The government and Fed are leveraging up with wild abandon trying to create a new bubble to kick the depression can down the road one more time. It remains to be seen whether the rest of the world will play along one more round, or at what point they pull the plug on our simply unimaginable amount of debt.
IMO, it was just a bad experiment that lasted only 75 years, but a few gallons as compared to an ocean of time. I wonder what the new economics will be called?
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The REAL problem with ECONOMICS is that the data base is never complete....nor is the inquiry....
And if there was a remedy....would/could it be implemented....
I am certain that a 10/5 C tax only would be light years ahead of what's in place now....
But the polys live on populism only....