Even the Fed in Minneapolis doesn't think the bailout will work

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ABSTRACT

Studying the experience of countries that have experienced great depressions during the twentieth century teaches us that massive public interventions in the economy to maintain employment and investment during a financial crisis can, if they distort incentives enough, lead to a great depression.

http://www.minneapolisfed.org/research/SR/SR421.pdf

Intervention didn't work during the Great Depression. Guess we won't learn from history yet again.

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Nice find. Here's a link to

Nice find. Here's a link to digg it if your into that...

http://digg.com/business_finance/What_Should_We_Learn_from_p...

Great Read! I've passed it

Great Read! I've passed it a long to many others. :)

Great read. Should be

Great read. Should be slapped in the face of every Keynesian supporter out there. They don't get it. Its amazing how dumb some of the people I talk to are.

good to see

Thanks for posting this.

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Did Obama Get This Report?

I think we all need to send a copy of this to Obama. I think he missed the memo.

NICE!!! Even the Fed is

NICE!!! Even the Fed is saying stop the stimulus package.

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