[lbo-talk] More premature Obama/FDR comparisons, this time from Newsweek

Eubulides paraconsistent at comcast.net
Fri Nov 14 21:08:07 PST 2008


Eubulides wrote:


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> "I am also convinced that the soundest monetary policy can be rendered
> void by a fiscal policy which leads by excessive expenditure to the
> printing press" [James Warburg]
>
> http://fraser.stlouisfed.org/docs/meltzer/fisdis34.pdf
>
> Fisher's reply follows; the context is Benjamin Strong's policy
> responses to the crash
>
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Ooooops, the last sentence should have read "what might have been Strong's..........

Ian



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