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Page 1: End This Depression Now! - Princeton Universitypkrugman/End This Depression Now!.pdf · Historical Long-Term Unemployment Percent of Total Unemployed Who Were Out of Work for 52 Weeks

End This Depression Now!

Paul Krugman

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Yes, it’s a depression

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Good old IS-LM has worked fine

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No crowding out

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Liquidity traps rule

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Structural foolishness: geography

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Structural foolishness: occupations

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But why no deflation?

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Nominal rigidity is real

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Separated at birth

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Keynes was right

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Any sign of the confidence fairy?

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Not here

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Debt: Not good, but not unprecedented

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Hysteresis in action?

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Conclusion: Looking for risks in all the wrong places Obsessing over: -- Invisible bond vigilantes -- Not scaring off the confidence fairy Ignoring: -- Huge losses in foregone output and employment -- Long-term damage to economic potential