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Written by Steve Meyers   
Thursday, 09 September 2010 12:04

Innovation - America Has A Structural Problem

altI gave President Barrack Obama six months to roll-out his doomed Keynesian policies, twelve months to discover they were flawed and eighteen months to realize that the solution to America’s problems must lie within a different economic framework. I had hoped by the end of twenty-four months to see new policies closer to an Austrian economic philosophy emerge. I was wrong.
 
Though, even the Wall Street Journal recently featured an article on the re-emergence of the Austrian School of Economic philosophy, it would appear that President Obama’s administration still neither gets it, nor I am afraid ever will. Key defections by his leading economic advisors, talk of the need for QE II and a Stimulus II, and a political collapse in public confidence suggests a growing awareness that Keynesian policies are not working, as many predicted they wouldn’t. Obama's exciting rhetoric of Hope and Change has left myself and the majority of recent polled Americans disillusioned and disappointed. What I see the administration failing to grasp is twofold:

I-America has a Structural problem, not a cyclical business cycle problem. Though the cyclical business cycle was greatly worsened by the financial crisis, I would argue that the structural problem facing the US is actually a contributor to what caused the financial crisis.

II- America has a Credit demand problem, not a Credit supply problem. It isn’t that the banks won’t lend, but rather that few can any longer afford or qualify (on any reasonably and historically sound basis) to borrow. READ MORE

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SteveP |2010-09-09 12:23:19
Thanks for posting Steve and providing all your insight. As for the article, I find the demographics chart just unreal. I read about this situation in 2008, but seeing in graph form is amazing! No wonder we had such a Bull market and bubbles. There is no way Social Security will ever have enough funds.
Ron Rebner |2010-09-09 12:30:28
Anyone see why the market dropped? I saw the Euro drop too and maybe that was it.
NV  - Gold |2010-09-09 13:16:24
http://goldswitzerland.com/index.php/gold-entering-a-virtuous-circle-egonvongreyerz/

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