Right now, the only thing keeping people out of the workforce is a shortage of jobs.
Loose monetary policy (i.e. interest rates that were kept too low) did contribute, sure; it fueled whatever bubble was about to come along....
Strictly speaking, it was financial deregulation that allowed this crisis (and most crises since the Great Depression) to occur in the first...
Obama's stimulus plan was cancelled out by cuts in state and local government spending, so the total effect was zero. This was better than having...
If the government pays someone to perform work, then the government has created a job. By the way, I should point out that jobs in the private...
What akphidelt2007 said. :) BTW, it turns out that we need to repair our failing infrastructure regardless of what the economy looks like....
Yes, the government did all of those things... because that's what Corporate America wanted. As long as corporations get politicians elected,...
The idea is that a large temporary stimulus should stimulate enough activity in the rest of the economy that non-stimulus activities will overtake...
Americans don't want to work crap jobs for no pay. Crack down on businesses that employ undocumented workers and you'll see wages rise high...
Actually, our situation is a lot better than Greece's. We were financially better off both before and after the crisis, we print out own money...
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