John Maynard Keynes To The Rescue!

The first time anything like Keynesian economics came to play in the US was the election of Roosevelt in 1933. He didn't finish passing his required legislation until 1937. The American economy received a massive boost in 1939 with the outbreak of WWII and its sales of equipment to us. During the two years it was fully in play, the economy picked up, from the dip of 1937 and was heading in the right direction.

We should remember that in the time of Hoover, and his neo-classical economics, unemployment in the US had jumped from 4% to 25%. Keynesian economics not only restarted the pump of capital, it made the depression a lot better for many Americans.
This is a common falsity, Hoover almost doubled federal outlays from 3.6 billion to 6.5 billion
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/data/budget.php
He cut next to shit and increased spending massively, he was the original New Dealer.

In fact, Hoover’s incessant meddling with the economy made the situation worse. He managed to turn the recession in 1929 into the Great Depression. While the economic picture was poor in 1929 and 1930, it was only in 1931, after a year of government intervention, that the situation seriously deteriorated.

Hoover also vastly increased spending on public works projects. More money was spent on such projects in four years than in the previous thirty.... Hoover’s Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC) supplied failing businesses, mainly railroads and banks, with emergency low-interest loans. By the latter half of 1932 the RFC was no longer simply bailing out businesses in trouble but was also lending money to the states for unemployment relief to fund public works projects.

The president’s attempts to prop up failing businesses were of dubious effect. “The businesses he hoped to save,” writes one historian, “either went bankrupt in the end, after fearful agonies, or were burdened throughout the 1930s by a crushing load of debt.”

Looking back upon his tenure, Hoover congratulated himself for his bold action. “We might have done nothing,” the president said in 1932. “That would have been utter ruin. Instead, we met the situation with proposals to private business and to Congress of the most gigantic program of economic defense and counterattack ever evolved in the history of the Republic.”

and if you still can't believe it, take his word for it:
We didn’t admit it at the time, but practically the whole New Deal was extrapolated from programs that Hoover started.” - Rexford Tugwell, New Deal Architect



You know, that underlined part sounds awful familiar don't it?
 
Even if Keynesian economics DID work, on a practical level it is dangerous and unrealistic because it relies on government cutting spending back to normal levels once things are going better. If you can guess how many times that's happened...

Moreover it ignores that government spending creates dependence especially social welfare spending, and it creates intrenched special interests who will fight to keep that money.
 
Even if Keynesian economics DID work, on a practical level it is dangerous and unrealistic because it relies on government cutting spending back to normal levels once things are going better. If you can guess how many times that's happened...

It often did in the days before conservatives adopted the "strangle the beast" strategy so that they wouldn't have to deal with cutting the government themselves.
 
The ideas of the right have crashed the wolrd economy twice in one lifetime.

They have to try to go back and rewrite the history books to hold onto their failed ideas.

Why not just get NEW ideas that are not proven failures guys?
 
The ideas of the right have crashed the wolrd economy twice in one lifetime.

They have to try to go back and rewrite the history books to hold onto their failed ideas.

Why not just get NEW ideas that are not proven failures guys?
Capitalist is prone to cycles due to over-speculation, causing market correction. Left alone, these recessionary periods recover relatively quickly, usually in a period of months. Liberals see these as an opportunity to advance their agenda, lengthening the recovery period to several years if not a decade or more.

We saw this with FDR and the New Deal, which lengthened the 1930's depression by about seven years. It took much of the UK's cash, given to us in return for tools of war, to start our recovery.

Under Obama's Hope and Change, we may never recover.
 
desh, don't be dense.

What allows these bubbles to form is the foreknowledge that government will step in and bail out the irresponsible. don't just blame corporations, blame the fascistic collusion between state and industry.
 
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Here is the historical list of all US recessions.

Now go look at them and study the patterns seen.

I know you wont but other people who are not so TIED to their failed ideas might.

You will realise we had a cycle of boom and bust the happened every few years. These times made it very hard for the regular Joe to build and secure their futures. The wealthy on the other hand could make money on the up side and the down side.

The population got fucked mostly and eeked along.

After the GD Glass steagal was put in place and all of the sudden we had a middle class that emerged at steady pace and the recessions were futher apart and shallower.

The facts are there and you have to shimmy, shake, tip toe, rewrite history, deny facts, go blind, hold your breath and stomp your little feet to keep from seeing reality.

It makes your life miserable, why not just give up on the failed ideas and think of soemthing that you wont have to shimmy, shake, tip toe, rewrite history, deny facts, go blind, hold your breath and stomp your little feet to defend.

GET SOME NEW IDEAS THAT ARE NOT PROVEN FAILURES!
 
I want to thank the many who have just owned southernman like the narrow minded right wing tool that he is. cheers
 
List of recessions in the United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Here is the historical list of all US recessions.

Now go look at them and study the patterns seen.

I know you wont but other people who are not so TIED to their failed ideas might.

You will realise we had a cycle of boom and bust the happened every few years. These times made it very hard for the regular Joe to build and secure their futures. The wealthy on the other hand could make money on the up side and the down side.

The population got fucked mostly and eeked along.

After the GD Glass steagal was put in place and all of the sudden we had a middle class that emerged at steady pace and the recessions were futher apart and shallower.

The facts are there and you have to shimmy, shake, tip toe, rewrite history, deny facts, go blind, hold your breath and stomp your little feet to keep from seeing reality.

It makes your life miserable, why not just give up on the failed ideas and think of soemthing that you wont have to shimmy, shake, tip toe, rewrite history, deny facts, go blind, hold your breath and stomp your little feet to defend.

GET SOME NEW IDEAS THAT ARE NOT PROVEN FAILURES!

So obama will reinstate glass-stegall then?
 
Im not pshyic but I dont think it will be glass steagal mirror image.

There will be laws written to effect the same restraints on the market and avoid the same damn mess the right gave us twice in one lifetime though.
 
Im not a physic but I dont think it will be glass steagal mirror image.

There will be laws written to effect the same restraints on the market and avoid the same damn mess the right gave us twice in one lifetime though.

Your blind trust of obama style fascism is repugnant. You're dumber than a rock.
 
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