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If We Discovered That, You Know, Space Aliens Were Planning To Attack And We Needed A Massive Buildup To Counter The Space Alien Threat And Really Inflation And Budget Deficits Took Secondary Place To That, This Slump Would Be Over In 18 Months. ... There Was A Twilight Zone Episode Like This In Which Scientists Fake An Alien Threat In Order To Achieve World Peace. Well, This Time, We Don't Need It, We Need It In Order To Get Some Fiscal Stimulus.

Debt Is One Person's Liability, But Another Person's Asset.

Sometimes Economists In Official Positions Give Bad Advice; Sometimes They Give Very, Very Bad Advice; And Sometimes They Work At The Oecd.

What Republicans Have Actually Put On The Table Is Almost Nothing. All Of The Rest Is Just Big Talk. So How Is The President Supposed To Negotiate With People Who Say, 'here's My Demands. By The Way, I Can't Give You Any Specifics. Just Make Me Happy'?

Asset Bubbles Have Happened Even Without Not-so-easy Money. And, In A Depressed Economy, Where Alternative Uses Of Money Are Not Great, People Are Going To Bid Up The Prices Of Profitable Corporations And Stuff Like That.