Tuesday, September 25, 2012

pk whistles past the arbitoir

this is the usual comp graph






but how about looking at financial crisis contraction/stagnation events ?


"We actually look better than most " ---if you ignore Japan---

 ":US economic performance since the financial crisis comprted with other episodes of major financial crisis. "
pk



that's uncle's economy in red


"protracted weakness is normal after a big financial crisis"

ya but is it necessary

or could we Kalecki  our way on out of this
and  in a Vickrey second

that is the superimposable  question  eh bub

pk

"we should have done even better: if stimulus works, and the evidence says that it does, we should have done more, and made the slump even shorter and shallower"



to really see who got rated here :

Spain 1977 tan
Norway 1987 lite blue
Finland  1991 green
Sweden 1991 purple

Japan 1992 royal blue

hmmmm nordic nite mare 
eternally tormented  Spain

plus japan


and japan kicks our butt

oh ya you can toss in the medicine ball
  haunting our collective memory
the american  great depression.... here teaced with  caspar the ghost like dots