Economic Stimulus: How to Profit From Cane Toad Economics - Int'l Business Times
27 May 2012, 9:31 pm
So what's the cane toad of economics? It goes by many names. Interventionism, meddling, keynesianism, monetarism, progressivism, central planning, socialism, communism, fascism, democracy, and 20/20 summits. It's the fateful combination of 'I ...

Would Romney really cut spending on 'Day One'? - Los Angeles Times
25 May 2012, 11:04 am
That brought a predictable response from the blogosphere. "keynesianism! keynesianism!" shouted the Washington Monthly's Political Animal. "Call Jim DeMint!" Romney's remarks might also sound a bit like those of another fellow running for ...

The Limits of keynesianism - TheStranger.com
25 May 2012, 9:45 am
Michael Roberts is a British Marxist economist. He runs a blog called The Next Recession. This is from a recent post, Inequality: the cause of crisis and depression?, on that blog: But it is one thing to recognise that inequality has rocketed in ...

Military Spending Cuts Looming, Republican Rediscover keynesianism - YAHOO!
25 May 2012, 8:48 am
Senator Harry Reid's threat to slash Pentagon spending has sparked a red hot streak of Republican keynesianism. The economic theory advocating short-term public spending in a recession followed by boom time debt reduction is heretical in modern ...

Government Spending Claims Two More Victims - Reason.com
22 May 2012, 5:41 pm
Recently, two more countries have felt the bite of keynesianism. Today, the credit ratings agency Fitch downgraded Japan’s economy and the AP reported that the Argentinian economy is likely to decline sharply. While Japan and Argentina might ...

The austerity deniers want to get us out of this crisis by hacking at the poor and vulnerable - The Guardian
22 May 2012, 3:00 am
For the past couple of years, contemporary politics has been a straight fight between the austerity merchants of the coalition, and the soft-keynesianism of Labour's Two Eds. But what's emerging now is a third strand – what you might call the ...

Wall Street Hellhound Puts JPMorgan’s Loss in Perspective - Bloomberg
17 May 2012, 6:15 pm
One of the best books for people trying to understand the current European debates between austerity and keynesianism, for example, is Liaquat Ahamed’s “Lords of Finance.” It’s a great reminder about the devastating consequences that ...

The Case for Austerity - Lewrockwell.com
11 May 2012, 6:58 pm
The reductions in government spending are said to have caused the contracting economies. This explanation is based on textbook keynesianism. Keynesians call for increased government spending. This is the heart of keynesianism. keynesianism rests on a ...

keynesianism Is The New Black Death - Forbes
9 May 2012, 4:45 pm
One election at a time, voters in Europe are tossing out politicians associated with “austerity”. This week, it was national elections in France and Greece, and state elections in part of Germany. Nicolas Sarkozy became the eighth leader of ...

François Hollande's in-tray topped by need to rescue French economy - The Guardian
6 May 2012, 2:04 pm
"We can't do keynesianism twice in 10 years," Michel Sapin, the former finance minister who wrote Hollande's economic programme, told senior German diplomats, according to a confidential note obtained by the Guardian. "Hollande is aware that ...