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The economic scheme expanded at its fastest stride inward to a greater extent than than a decade during the outflow in addition to summer,... Gross domestic product...grew at a seasonally adjusted annual charge per unit of measurement of 3.9% inward the tertiary quarter... combined increment charge per unit of measurement inward the mo in addition to tertiary quarters at 4.25%, affirming the best six-month stride since the mo one-half of 2003."
The upward revision to overall growth, driven past times [sic] stronger consumer in addition to trouble organization spending in addition to a smaller drag from inventory investment, surprised economists...Paul Krugman, Feb 22 2013, "Sequester of Fools"
The sequester, past times contrast, volition likely toll “only” unopen to 700,000 jobs.New York Times, Februrary 21 2013, "Why Taxes Have to Go Up"
Democrats in addition to Republicans rest at odds on how to avoid a circular of budget cuts thus deep in addition to arbitrary that to allow them straightaway could push the economic scheme dorsum into recession. The cuts, known every bit a sequester, volition boot inward March 1 [my emphasis]
Paul Krugman, March 10, 2013: "Sequester Cuts Will Be Felt inward Time"
..it volition inaugural of all to build, in addition to it won't only locomote White House tours, it volition locomote air traffic delays, ...as the effects boot in, it volition remind people why nosotros genuinely demand a regime that does its job.(Actually, manifest failures of regime to practise its project lately are pretty depressing. But non for lack of money.)
Meanwhile dorsum inward the worryzone
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Europe, which is doing worse than it did inward the 1930s, is clearly inward the suitcase of a deflationary vortex,Really, "worse than the 1930s???" We're watching dissimilar versions of the History Channel.
Paul Krugman, undated,
... if the economic scheme ... has excess capacity, in addition to likewise ...i = 0 ...- it cannot larn out. The output gap feeds expectations of deflation, in addition to since the nominal involvement charge per unit of measurement cannot autumn this implies a rising existent involvement rate, worsening the output gap. The economy, inward short, falls into a deflationary spiral.This prediction of a "deflation spiral" 1 time nosotros striking the nil saltation alongside huge "output gaps" has to stand upward every bit a stark failure of Keynesian economics, on a par alongside its grand failure to predict inflation inward the 1970s. Only, predicting a catastrophe that did non come about doesn't attract quite every bit much attending every bit failing to predict 1 that did.
If you're non getting the point, aspect at the graph. Let me remind you lot "deflation" agency numbers less than zero, a lot less than zero. And "spiral" or "vortex" agency getting steadily to a greater extent than negative, non asymptoting to zero. And if you lot acre a model ex-post in addition to ad-hoc non to hit a spiral, in addition to thus that model no longer predicts that inflation is a danger.
To locomote sure, I am beingness inconsistent today -- I convey staunchly maintained that "models" must be on newspaper or inward computers, inward objectively verifiable forms, alongside "predictions" that whatever operator tin make, non inward soothsayer's heads. I convey staunchly maintained that evaluating economical theories past times pundit prognostication is completely meaningless.
But I likewise don't larn far my trouble organization to vilify other people from misquoted opinions on electrical flow dangers. (Though I'm indeed pulling Paul's leg a bit, delight honor the absence of "evil," "vile," "mendacious idiot," "corrupt," "stupid," "doesn't know economics," in addition to thus on from this post.)
So only this 1 time I volition orbit inward to grumpy temptation.
