Politics '12: Election year shenanigans.

[SnowFire]

Don't let the URL fool you; that's a child site of Newsmax, home to the right's most deranged writers.  Credibility zero, that article was obviously written by a goldbug who has been busily announcing the upcoming financial apocalypse constantly as punishment for the sin of fiat money rather than shiny rocks or something.

[Shale]

Newsmax, home to the right's most deranged writers.

WorldNetDaily would like a word with you, if it could spell any.

[Pyro]

Total bullshit. The inflationistas dipshits have been declaring HYPERINFLATION BECUZ DA FED PRINTZ MONEY for four fucking years. These retards are the ones trying to stop fiscal and monetary measures to help with the unemployment crisis. They are emotionally invested in societal collapse and will be making the rest of us miserable until we ignore them and let them walk around with their cardboard THE END IS COMING placards.

Conservative economists have failed so hard with the crisis aftermath it would be laughable... if they were not contributing to the crisis and blighting millions of lives.

[SnowFire]

Shale: Point.

Pyro: Well, liberal / conservative isn't something that exactly applies to economists, at least usually...  Bernanke is a Republican appointee as a reminder, and Mankiw, who is pretty much the most respectable / prestigious "conservative" economist around agrees with him...
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-10-01/romney-bashing-bernanke-snubs-adviser-mankiw-s-viewpoint
...not to mention that Milton Friedman, had he been alive, would likely have been on board as well.  (What some Republicans who praise him seem to have forgotten - his complaint about the Depression-era Fed was not "the Fed is inherently evil" but rather "the Fed pursued a deflationary policy rather than an inflationary one.")

That said, of course, if Republican politicians only embrace economists who preach the One True Word of inflation-is-evil deflation-is-awesome, this may change in the future.

[Pyro]

Political lines have been basically drawn on the subject. 'Conservative' economics refers to the post-2008 disbelief in monetary and fiscal policy that is a hallmark of most major conservative figures.

It wasn't always so but the desire to be Anti-Obama drove the conservative wing to madness on this topic (and others)

[Idun]

Yeah, the link wasn't placed to bear credibility to the authors. It's clearly sensational. What's outstanding, however, is how a quick keyword search of the article shows its references in some pretty mainstream places. Operation Enact Hysteria.

[Dunefar]

Time for a new topic!