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Re:If There Is Such a Thing as Economic ‘Good Times,’ These ... by squirrelicus on Thursday September 13, 2018 @03:33PM (#17981672)
Not to mention failure to raise interest rates to bleed the artificially cheap money out of the economy after quantitative easing. But you can't find a political party these days that supports doing a Keynesian strategy. Everyone wants to have their cake and eat it too, as it were.
Re:If There Is Such a Thing as Economic ‘Good Times,’ These ... by yellowstuff on Thursday September 13, 2018 @03:50PM (#17981862)
The US Fed is raising interest rates. Gradually, but arguably fairly aggressively considering inflation is so low.
Re:If There Is Such a Thing as Economic ‘Good Times,’ These ... by zeroname on Friday September 14, 2018 @04:36PM (#17990725)
Oh, they did do the whole spending part of the Keynesian "strategy", it's just that if they now raise rates too high there will be bankruptcies across the board, causing another crisis.

Keynesianism just doesn't work exactly because no politician ever finds themselves in a position where they can apply the savings side of it.

Re:If There Is Such a Thing as Economic ‘Good Times,’ These ... by jayd16 on Thursday September 13, 2018 @03:49PM (#17981841)
This is pretty dismissive. The Obama admin was very cognizant of keeping ACA deficit neutral, for example. Far cry from the current spend and don't tax policies.
Re:If There Is Such a Thing as Economic ‘Good Times,’ These ... by squirrelicus on Thursday September 13, 2018 @04:20PM (#17982165)
You are confusing fiscal policy with monetary policy.
Re:If There Is Such a Thing as Economic ‘Good Times,’ These ... by jayd16 on Thursday September 13, 2018 @07:16PM (#17983550)
Ah. The comment you replied to was about tax cuts. I misunderstood your point.
Re:If There Is Such a Thing as Economic ‘Good Times,’ These ... by optimuspaul on Thursday September 13, 2018 @03:48PM (#17981834)
Maybe democracy isn't the ideal we should be looking towards