Okay, not exactly. The paper clearly indicates it is the express view of the authors and not that of the Minneapolis Federal Reserve. But check out this abstract from a paper posted by Timothy J. Kehoe (University of Minnesota, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, and National Bureau of Economic Research) and Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba(Universidad de Salamanca):
"Studying the experience of countries that have experienced great depressions during the twentieth century teaches us that massive public interventions in the economy to maintain employment and investment during a financial crisis can, if they distort incentives enough, lead to a great depression."
It's ironic that a branch of the Federal Reserve has an economist who advocates the exact opposite of what we have been doing. Wake up people this intervention is making things worse!
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
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