Showing posts with label austerity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label austerity. Show all posts

Sunday, November 7, 2010

The election in two charts

Unemployment claims stay flat (i.e. bad) h/t James Fallows


Personal consumption is down     ht/t  Brad Delong
Solution: stimulus: put money in people's hands to stimulate production
The wrong way: the Christopher Christie approach: austerity budgets (stop spending money).  That depresses demand and reduces production, driving down prices, further depressing demand..