Obama’s permanent depression

is the title of a new Spengler essay posted this morning at Asia Times Online. Keynesian stimulus was a terrible idea; combine it with nearly free money and you create a positive-feedback loop between the Treasury deficit and the banking system. It’s going to be a long, long three years until the next Presidential election.

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