Sunday, April 21, 2013

Tufte’s Short Post # 6: The Bush stimulus didn’t work either

The Bush stimulus didn’t work either. We tend to forget that there was a smaller set of stimulus packages pushed through early in 2008. Recognizing this should make us pick on Obama and the Democrats less, and the concept of stimulus more.

There’s an arthouse film called Thirty-Two Short Films About Glenn Gould. You’re getting Twenty-Six Short Posts from Dr. Tufte. :) These are on why it’s difficult to understand the current macroeconomic situation.

Joe Baker is not a macroeconomist, but we all do a little bit of everything at SUU, so he has to teach principles of macroeconomics sometimes. The other day he asked for pointers about summing up for his students why we can’t quite figure out what’s wrong with the economy. I came up with 26 reasons, most of which have been discussed in class, and all of which are now required.

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