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Re:Economist Bob Mundell has died by billiam on Tuesday April 06, 2021 @12:52PM (#26714229)
A man whose 1960s ideas were ideal for the seventies and helped destroy our economic system in the 1990s while enabling the billionaire winner take all society of today.
Re:Economist Bob Mundell has died by dang on Tuesday April 06, 2021 @04:27PM (#26716976)
Substantive critique is welcome, but please don't post rhetorical ideological drive-bys to HN. It leads to shallower, more repetitive, and nastier internet discussion—all of which is uninteresting.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Re:Economist Bob Mundell has died by pessimizer on Tuesday April 06, 2021 @12:58PM (#26714324)
Honoring a man who never got anything right. A man whose predictions were never bore any material fruit, but justified everything billionaires were going to do anyway.
Re:Economist Bob Mundell has died by hindsightbias on Tuesday April 06, 2021 @01:27PM (#26714747)
After the stimulus bills of 2020 one would think everyone is a Keynesian (maybe excluding Rand Paul, he probably voted against it).
Re:Economist Bob Mundell has died by dragonwriter on Tuesday April 06, 2021 @01:33PM (#26714845)
The 2020 COVID relief wasn’t as much argued on Keynesian stimulus terms as, say, the 2009 ARRA stimulus, but more as disaster relief.
Re:Economist Bob Mundell has died by hindsightbias on Tuesday April 06, 2021 @02:51PM (#26715792)
They just don't want to use the K word.
Re:Economist Bob Mundell has died by imtringued on Tuesday April 06, 2021 @05:37PM (#26717685)
It goes both ways. The government closed businesses, but also gave them resources to stay in business. You can argue it was Keynesian, but you can also argue it wasn't.

However, pretty much everything Biden did, was Keynesian.