Hey Joel - here's some more good news from a smart fellow:
"Instead of furthering the inevitable liquidation of the maladjustments brought about by the boom during the last three years, all conceivable means have been used to prevent that readjustment from taking place; and one of these means, which has been repeatedly tried though without success, from the earliest to the most recent stages of depression, has been this deliberate policy of credit expansion", this fellow explains.
"To combat the depression by a forced credit expansion is to attempt to cure the evil by the very means which brought it about; because we are suffering from a misdirection of production, we want to create further misdirection a procedure that can only lead to a much more severe crisis as soon as the credit expansion comes to an end", he continues.
"It is probably to this experiment, together with the attempts to prevent liquidation once the crisis had come, that we owe the exceptional severity and duration of the depression. We must not forget that, for the last six or eight years, monetary policy all over the world has followed the advice of the stabilizers. It is high time that their influence, which has already done harm enough, should be overthrown."
The fellow's name is Friedrich August von Hayek, 1974 Nobel Prize winner in economics, and he wrote this in June 1932 during the presidential campaign. Seems politicians still haven't learned from history, or just don't care. Be prepared for massive inflation.
MikeD74T
