Zombienomics, or Nikki Haley’s Day of Debt Reckoning

Real economics: the JMK aggregate demand graph (https://econlife.com/2017/05/priming-the-pump/)

Debt Zombie Haleynomics: Britain’s Buffett vs the Austrian Austerian

FDR’s 1937 tap on the fiscal brakes triggered a 55% stock market drop, 14% to 19% rise in unemployment. Then $5bn for public works & the war proved this cartoon wrong (https://econlife.com/2017/05/priming-the-pump/)

Let’s unpack Haley’s bundle of economic and historical illiteracy one step at a time. We’ll examine the post WWII history of US national…

--

--

From Latvia & Porto I write to share learning from an academic&business life in 8 languages in 5 countries & seeing fascism die in Portugal&Spain in1974 & 1976.

Get the Medium app

A button that says 'Download on the App Store', and if clicked it will lead you to the iOS App store
A button that says 'Get it on, Google Play', and if clicked it will lead you to the Google Play store
Lester Golden

From Latvia & Porto I write to share learning from an academic&business life in 8 languages in 5 countries & seeing fascism die in Portugal&Spain in1974 & 1976.