- MONETARY POLICY IS KEY
- GET THE SMALL THINGS RIGHT
He also took steps to strengthen unions and to keep real wages high. This helped workers who had jobs, but made it much harder for the unemployed to get back to work. One result was unemployment rates that remained high throughout the New Deal period.
Today, President-elect Barack Obama faces pressures to make unionization easier, but such policies are likely to worsen the recession for many Americans.
- DON’T RAISE TAXES IN A SLUMP
- WAR ISN’T THE WEAPON
- YOU CAN’T TURN BAD TO GOOD
In short, expansionary monetary policy and wartime orders from Europe, not the well-known policies of the New Deal, did the most to make the American economy climb out of the Depression. Our current downturn will end as well someday, and, as in the ’30s, the recovery will probably come for reasons that have little to do with most policy initiatives.
What do you think of Krugman's arguments on the liquidity trap and the idea that monetary policy, nearing the zero-bound limit, is running out of bullets?
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