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Rather than relying on mechanical analogies like automobile traffic, or fantasizing about "a brand new track" (since I live in the boonies I read that at first as "a brand new truck"), we're better off re-evaluating complex systems we've created in light of what we know about complex systems in nature. And here I would encourage all to include pre-industrial humans.

Robert Frank makes the point that some innovations can make an individual more likely to reproduce but at cost to the success of the species. Maybe he's been reading ZeroHedge on high frequency trading? Or thinking about our bloated financial sector? Or the consequences of fossil-fueled development?

"Fractal: a word coined by Benoit Mandelbrot in 1975 to describe shapes that are "self-similar" — that is, shapes that look the same at different magnifications."

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On recommendation of Michael Pettis I'm reading Devil Take The Hindmost: A History of Financial Speculation by Edward Chancellor. Full of oddities and quotable quotes, Chancellor walks the reader down a rocky path from tulip mania to the late-90s tech bubble which was inflating as he wrote. If you need a bit of perspective on the current mess, you could do worse.

Chancellor is not a fan of the efficient markets hypothesis. He's willing to dig into historical records to see what really went down. He's also willing to enlist the perspectives of Hayek, Minsky and Mises in order to evaluate The Maestro.

Not to minimize the scale of the current debacle, but I take heart when AEI regular Chris Whalen comes out swinging against regulatory capture, and institutions that are too big to fail and too big to manage. Comparing Whalen's remarks to lawmakers to testimony of Jamie Galbraith is enlightening; there really is common ground on which meaningful reform can be accomplished.

Yves, keep up the great work. Seems like most of the people here simply don't have the stomach for what's coming.

Again this is something of a theoretical exercise since we are already 6 months into the 2 year timeframe.

Now while $1.2 trillion in stimulus spending is a lot of money and it really needs to continue into 2011 and beyond, it is far less than the last figure of $6.788 trillion given in the last 10 months by the Fed and government to bailout the financial system.

Initially funds could be used to support state and municipal budgets as well as education and some infrastructure projects. But as I have been advocating for a while now and other commenters have said here, the country needs a policy to re-industrialize in a sustainable, less carbon and energy utilizing way. It is of the utmost importance that stimulus be used to take us somewhere we want and need to go.

Fool me once. Shame on you.
Fool me twice… can't get fooled again!

It’s not pure happenstance that this recession has bested the 1973-75 recession in depth. It’s generally accepted that the three recessions between 1973-1982 were part of a larger Structural Economic Transformation that involved shifting the GDP of a (then) 200 million-person nation that, pre-1973, possessed a sturdy and proven manufacturing base and talented workforce that could operate on a Pay-As-You-Go basis without depending on using excessive amounts of household debt to buy groceries, clothing and to secure medical care; that could save 8% of their earnings; and which could put 20% down on a car and on a house.

By 1982 when the recent (and now deceased) 25-yr Bull market in stocks began, the structural shift in the economy was about completed. Most of those mfg workers had been kicked to the curb & the nation’s mfg base kicked overseas. A huge nation then began the unwise ‘experiment’ of coupling wages & salaries to the undertow forces of globalization, while attempting to be a Service Economy of Knowledge Workers. And also attempting to be a nation with a GDP 70% driven by debt-enabled 'Consumer Spending'. This GDP model required households to incur more debt each succeeding year to make the household budget ‘work’, culminating in the unwisely ‘vaunted’ Creative Class that were simply glorified Walking Junk Bonds using debt to buy lofts and to patronize wine bars and urban art galleries; all enabled by excessive household debt leverage. This Creative Class were certainly nothing to be admired exalted or emulated.

So here we are in 2009, the unwise experiment of a GDP 70% driven by Debt-Enabled Consumer Spending has ended for this ponderous nation of 300+ million persons.
Debt Unwind is irrepressible and is using deflation and recession to force an Involuntary Structural Economic Transformation upon us.
Unlike last time, our white-collar Economists, academics and leaders are slow – perhaps loathed – to admit we’re in a structural change with no ‘Recovery’ back to some comforting ‘normalcy’ of a GDP 70% driven by spending..
There will be no ‘L’-shaped ‘Recovery’…only more of this ‘L’-shaped DESCENT until Debt Unwind deposits us somewhere on an economic landscape akin to the bumpy floor of a crater.
Then the groping begins.
We can stupidly try and re-animate the debt-fueled consumer spending model (this is the path chosen by Obama, Bush, Geithner, Paulson, Bernanke, Greenspan, et al).
Or we can pursue a frugal Pay-As-You-Go model, and a Local Production and Local Service Delivery economic model where we make that which we consume and keep wages & prices for goods & services in a sustainable equilibrium with nil usage of debt leveraging…ala life pre-1973.
For the latter, we must LEAD our Leaders.
Obama is too beholden to banks & Wall Street & Harvard ‘Blue Chips’, and to advisors like Summers & Geithner, a Goldman-Sachs lackey, to grasp any of this on his own.

That is the understatement of the year. Simple back-of-the-envelope calculation show that for every dollar spent for Main Street, the Federal Govermin et al. (Fed, Treasury etc.) spent 306 for Wall Street.

With such an astonishing disparity, is it any wonder that the good times are rolling again on Wall Street while we get royally screwed?

What is even more astonishing is that the pitchforks and torches haven't fly yet.

But it is only a mater of time: Obama has already sacrificed the 1st stimulus package at the altar of bipartisanship and discarded the need for a 2nd one.