Megan McCardle tells us You Can’t Inflate Your Way Out of Debt, which is dead wrong: Look, for example at the Wiemar republic.
Off budget deficit
Long ago, the government found a new way to run a deficit:Â Create a nominally private business with government appointed management, to carry out a government directed mission.Â
The nomenclatura
each benevolent intervention either by its nature does not effect people like the beloved leaders themselves , or, as with the health plan, people like the beloved leaders are specifically exempted from this kindly help.
“We may be seeing the beginning of the end of the recessionâ€
My prediction is for high unemployment, high inflation, or both.
Kaufman predicts soaring unemployment
as everything goes to hell, doubtless capitalism will be blamed, and Krugman and the rest will declare that they have been proven right – that all the bad things happening are proof that capitalism does not work and therefore they did not crush it enough.
You are probably a federal felon
There are a lot of laws, indeed they are growing so fast that not only can they not be read by legislators, but with in creasing frequency not even printed, existing only in electronic form, no longer practical to commit to paper. Further, many of these laws are deliberately overbroad for the convenience of prosecutors Thus for example Krister Evertson was convicted of abandoning hazardous waste – notwithstanding the fact that the materials were not waste, nor abandoned, nor even …
British political prisoners.
Two british nazis, Simon Shappard and Stephen Whittle, were charged with writing heresy. They fled to the USA, but last month were forced back to Britain, where they have each been jailed for two years and two months for publishing thought crimes: They posted on their web site that Hitler did not exterminate the Jews, but that he should have.
Goldman Sach’s hand caught in piggy bank.
They admit their hand was in the piggy bank, but say they were just feeling the money, not stealing it. Proprietary secret software should not be in trading computers. Any software in those computers should be subject to scrutiny by all major traders. Any secret software in trading computers is compelling evidence of wrongdoing.
A politician speaks the truth!
Usually, any statement or report emanating from government, any government white paper, is a lie, but in a remarkable fluke outburst of truthfulness, the U.S. House of Representative Committee on Oversight and Government Reform has issued a report: The Role of Government Affordable Housing Policy in Creating the Global Financial Crisis of 2008 The long and the short of the report being that the government pressured financiers to issue easy money bad loans to irresponsible borrowers, which government policy eventually …
I predict: 1. Seemingly good economic news
I predict that around 2009 October or so, there will be lots of seemingly cheerful economic news. Quite possibly sooner, possibly some time in August. I predict that the Keynesian element of the depression will rapidly and visibly diminishing towards the end of the year. Crises that are well described by Keynes (aggregate demand falling below aggregate supply) never last long, except to the extent government intervenes to forbid businessmen to adjust to them. Say’s law is observed to be …