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January 26, 2009

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Walt French

Hank and Ben tried it and it didn't work. Look at the crap that the Fed put onto its balance sheet -- hundreds of billions of "high-quality private debt and especially new securitized debt." (Well, maybe not the "high quality" part, unless you take now-explicitly-backed mortgages as "high quality" without the subsidy of a newly minted guarantee.)

Really, what standards would one use to judge the success of a program? And why, if you've subsidized banks to the tune of $350 billion plus without visible success (e.g., lending, jobs, ...) would you be too fussy about trying something more?

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The difference lies in the likely effect on aggregate demand: if the government issues debt to build a road, then aggregate demand and therefore activity levels will certainly rise; if the government issues debt, not to buy goods and services but rather to buy private debt, will the private sector respond by increasing its demand for goods and services? Under the current circumstances, that's very unlikely--right now there is a strong incentive for precautionary saving.

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I think that there is a significant difference between Cochrane and Krugman. Krugman says that we should try everything that might work to some degree--monetary policy, fiscal policy, credit policy a la Bernanke-Gertler. Cochrane says that fiscal policy and credit policy can only work to the extent that they are really monetary policy in disguise. I suppose that you can define things so that what Cochrane says is not in conflict with what Krugman says, but I don't see why you should strain to do so...

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Cochrane argues that government spending financed by borrowing from the public (not the central bank) would be ineffective. I don't think Krugman would agree.

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and all nearly at once
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in particular lets
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that
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-among other
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but are u prepared
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or at least a full recovery of
this indespensible nation's job markets
simply by some massive
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don't somebody named Sam
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okay so i miss the point here maybe..

maybe you're just showing us the finance side
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" I suppose that you can define things so that what Cochrane says is not in conflict with what Krugman says, but I don't see why you should strain to do so..."
thus spackles
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none the less Mr R

i recall leibnitz
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german
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not sure he succeeded

are they now merged ???

wiki is unclear on this

paine

btw
i'd rather see uncle sucker
buy the junk out right then simply back it

guraantees mean uncle only pays the loses
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if gentle ben
builds a
five trillion dollar
yukka mountain
stuffed full
of the global's dollar based toxic paper
some of it will "come thru " eh ??

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This is kinda dumb -- our fundamental problem isn't a business cycle transition, it's the fact that Galbraith was right. We have two economies, one of small entities which act competitively and one of large entities which act noncompetitively (internally, if not externally). This has lead to the rise of a managerial class focused on extracting wealth from large organizations, rather than creating wealth.

No amount of fiscal or monetary stimulus can correct this; it represents a violation of our models' basic assumptions. If the principal-agent problem drives our economic woes, then free market solutions will do nothing to solve it, other than provide more rent-seeking opportunities.

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"other things the Fed could do [are] controversial, precisely because, unlike conventional monetary policy, they involve picking and choosing among potentially risky investments"

Now, imagine that Social Security reform had passed, in the following form: instead of getting vague, revocable claims to future benefits, people get, in return for their payroll taxes, Treasury bills, over which they have property rights, albeit they can't fully exercise them until retirement.

Now, the crisis hits, and you have a *new fiscal policy tool*, namely: allow people to diversify (some of) their Social Security private accounts out of Treasury bonds into stocks and private bonds. Now a lot more Treasury bonds are on the market, helping satisfy portfolio and precautionary demand for secure financial instruments, and new money goes to Corporate America and to shareholders to invest or consume. And the Fed doesn't have to make the discretionary decisions, but these are made in a decentralized fashion by fund managers.

It was a great idea. Too bad Democrats sacrificed us to their FDR cult.

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Cochrane argues that government spending financed by borrowing from the public (not the central bank) would be ineffective.

I'm wondering about that, myself. One of the reasons why the US originally got a National Bank back in the immediate post-colonial era was so that the government could borrow from them in bad times, and in times of war (the Brits were doing it).

Could the Fed do something like that? Borrow money from the Treasury, then lend it out at a higher interest rate to the US government? Obviously you'd be running the risk of inflation, since it amounts to basically printing money, but you could maybe get away with it for a short while (particularly since the dollar is the world's reserve currency).

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Cochrane sounds as though he is feeling his way toward the idea of a national bank as has been proposed at this Angry Bear post
http://angrybear.blogspot.com/2009/01/bernanke-had-thought-then-another-and.html
I have seen support for this idea in comments on Economist's View, too, though Prof. Thoma hasn't posted on it as far as I know.

I'm a supporter; it seems like a better idea than the "chaotic bailouts" that Cochrane complains about and at least as good as nationalisation. I fear, however, that both the Obama Adminstration and the Democrats in Congress all still have a long way to travel before such options can be taken seriously.

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