Good Morning... We're Still Screwed For No Good Reason

Aug 19th, 2011

Paul Krugman writes:

"In the past, you could make excuses on the grounds of ignorance. In the 1930s they didn’t have basic macroeconomics. Even in Japan in the 1990s you could argue that it took a long time to realize that the liquidity trap was a real possibility in the modern world.

But we came into this crisis with a pretty good understanding of what was at stake and pretty good analysis of the policy options — yet policy makers and, I’m sorry to say, many economists just chose to ignore all that and go with their prejudices instead.
And the worst of it is that the people who got this so wrong have not and probably won’t admit to their awesome wrongness; on the contrary, they’ll dig in. And the Lesser Depression will go on and on and on."

Enjoy. We have one more whole day of market exchange volatility ahead of us before the American broadcast media begins their round-table "discussions" with an entirely balanced consortium of pandering rightists.