Jeffrey Sachs: Time to plan for post-Keynesian era

[Winehole23]

The bummer universe is a bummer.

[Winehole23]

I blame it on the 80's.

We were bad boys and girls all along, excepting the (last?) brief outbreak of fiscal sanity under GHWB.

[EVAY]

In your hypothetical though, Evay, doctors are working to fix a person, not game a system for a maximum amount of money.

People in the financial systems created byzantine schemes, then funded politicians to support these programs legally, thereby ensuring no fallout when the bottom fell out.

Look, these are the same people who thought they could reduce/eliminate risk with a magical formula. And yet, despite bringing the nation to its knees, despite its monumental list of ups and mistakes, many banks/lenders are still raking in money hand over fist.

Well, when you're right, you're right.

[EmptyMan]

Politics is all bull , no one does anything needed to actually fix the clusterfukk system. It is purely entertainment/team sports for grown ups. That's what makes it so mind-blowing that this country is still standing. Look on the bright side

[Winehole23]

It makes a difference who we pick to do it, however blind, contrived or misguided our choices be.

[Winehole23]

At least for mayor and sheriff and the various other comissioner-regulator type stains, it still matters. JMO.

[angrydude]

If there's one thing we've learned, it's that people who deal in economics have no ing clue what they're doing. They might as well be tossing darts.

Why should we believe them now when they've repudiated their own words? And they wonder why they get death threats.

imagine if you'd said that about scientists...though I agree with your premise