Keynesianism
Are Obama’s policies burying the US economy?
Gerard Jackson Monday 28 March 2011
When Obama ran for president I warned that the man is a dogmatic leftist and Americans — those with any sense, that is — would rue the day he sat in the Oval Office. Since then I, along with many others, also pointed out that if unchecked his policies would result in economic stagnation and inflation. Well, this now seems to be the case. Read the rest of this entry »
Bernanke’s snake oil and Obama’s leftism will be the undoing of America
Gerard Jackson Monday 1 November 2010
What is truly remarkableis that any Democrats at all will survive the mid-term elections given that there probably has never been a more incompetent and dogmatic administration than Obama’s White House carnival. What passes for economic policy is a complete shambles, and Bernanke’s crude Keynesianism is only aggravating the country’s pain.
Why the US economy is floundering and where it is going
Gerard Jackson Monday 18 October 2010
Last year I explained that there would no recovery and that manufacturing was heading for a slowdown. Both of these predictions came to pass. I am forever stressing that the boom-bust cycle is caused by monetary expansion largely consisting of phony bank deposits. In plain English, we call this credit expansion.
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Keynes’ dangerous fallacies and errors
Gerard Jackson Monday 11 October 2010
Now that Keynesianism is being promoted with renewed enthusiasm (clear evidence that economic fallacies never really die) we should take a look at Keynes’ dangerous fallacies and errors. Some years ago Alex Millmow, a Keynesian and senior lecturer in economics at Charles Sturt University at the time, wrote enthusiastically in the Australian Financial Review of Geoff Harcourt and Peter Riach’s commissioning of a two-volume set written by Keynesians that was intended as a ‘rewrite’ of Keynes’ General Theory of Employment Interest and Money. According to Millmow, this work would put an end to arguments about “what Keynes really meant”. Well the works were published and, as expected, they did not put an end to “what Keynes really meant”.