Economics
Earthquakes Don’t Add to the Wealth of Nations: Caroline Baum
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It takes a crisis, such as the financial meltdown in 2008, to rally support for a Keynesian style fiscal stimulus.
It takes another kind of crisis, specifically the earthquake and tsunami that devastated the northeastern coast of Japan last week, to expose the Keynesian fallacy that the government can spend its way to prosperity.