Sep 25, 2009
The Keynesian connection between unemployment and bubbles

Keep interest rates low so that people spend rather than hoarding—but only so long as there is involuntary unemployment. When an economy no longer has involuntary unemployment, further efforts to stimulate demand will merely cause inflation and asset bubbles.”
Richard Posner paraphrasing John Maynard Keynesi. See also Aaron Swartz.

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