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- From: thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Ted Frank)
- Subject: Re: A Supply Side Call to Arms
- Message-ID: <1992Dec17.130619.17699@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- References: <37853@uflorida.cis.ufl.edu> <1992Dec9.050929.29917@midway.uchicago.edu> <37945@uflorida.cis.ufl.edu>
- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 13:06:19 GMT
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- In article <37945@uflorida.cis.ufl.edu> jfh@beach.cis.ufl.edu (James F. Hranicky) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec9.050929.29917@midway.uchicago.edu> thf2@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
- >>>Keynes satirizing the gold standard was further evidence of his economic
- >>>ignorance.
- >>
- >>I believe quite the contrary, unless you can explain why we should
- >>let miners and random exogenous shocks determine the level of the
- >>money supply.
- >
- >Any jolts that occured during nineteenth century for these reasons
- >pale greatly in comparison to the jolt of the Great Depression, which
- >was caused by an increase in the quantity of money by the Federal Reserve,
-
- False.
-
- >and this is EXACTLY what Keynes offered as a solution to unemployment.
-
- False.
-
- >>"Complete" failure? We're not in a Depression any more, are we? Huey Long
- >>and Charles Coughlin and the Stalinists had their thunder stolen, didn't they?
- >>(The economy grew at a 8-13% clip throughout FDR's presidency, so don't give
- >>me the "only because of WW2" argument.)
- >
- >The New Deal made things worse.
-
- False. Ask anyone who actually lived then.
-
- >>>Thanks to Keynesianism, we, with our monolithic debt, may be on the verge
- >>>of a Depresion which will make the Great Depression of the 30's look like
- >>>a cakewalk.
- >>
- >>One might attribute the recent doubling of the debt/GNP in the 1980's to
- >>Reagan, rather than Keynes, but that would no doubt create a new thread.
- >
- >Keynes advocated deficit spending, did he not?
-
- No. He advocated deficit spending in poor economic times and surplus
- spending in good economic times. Note the difference between this
- philosophy and Reagan's, which advocated deficit spending in poor
- economic times, and record deficit spending in good economic times.
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