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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHow Economists and Policymakers Murdered Our Economy
How Economists and Policymakers Murdered Our Economy
Paul Craig Roberts
The economy has been debilitated by the offshoring of middle class jobs for the benefit of corporate profits and by the Federal Reserves policy of Quantitative Easing in order to support a few oversized banks that the government protects from market discipline. Not only does QE distort bond and stock markets, it threatens the value of the dollar and has resulted in manipulation of the gold price. See http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2014/01/17/hows-whys-gold-price-manipulation/
When US corporations send jobs offshore, the GDP, consumer income, tax base, and careers associated with the jobs go abroad with the jobs. Corporations gain the additional profits at large costs to the economy in terms of less employment, less economic growth, reduced state, local and federal tax revenues, wider deficits, and impairments of social services.
When policymakers permitted banks to become independent of market discipline, they made the banks an unresolved burden on the economy. Authorities have provided no honest report on the condition of the banks. It remains to be seen if the Federal Reserve can create enough money to monetize enough debt to rescue the banks without collapsing the US dollar. It would have been far cheaper to let the banks fail and be reorganized.
US policymakers and their echo chamber in the economics profession have let the country down badly. They claimed that there was a New Economy to take the place of the old economy jobs that were moved offshore. As I have pointed out for a decade, US jobs statistics show no sign of the promised New Economy.
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How Economists and Policymakers Murdered Our Economy (Original Post)
n2doc
Jan 2014
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cantbeserious
(13,039 posts)1. Where We Are Today - How We Got Here - Who Sold Us Out
What The Corporate Oligarchs And 1% Are Doing Today
How Corporate Oligarchs And The 1% Have Systematically Undermined US Democracy And The Middle Class
How The Liberal Class Sold Out To The Corporate Oligarchs And 1%
democratisphere
(17,235 posts)2. ONLY QUESTION THAT REMAINS: WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO ABOUT IT?
Will the 90% just let the takeover and inevitable collapse just happen or will THEY actually ATTEMPT do something about it?!?!?