The Story of Economic/Political Evil

I am glad somebody took the time to look at the origins of "neoliberal" economics because I sure as hell don't have the time or the inclination to do the legwork necessary.

It's a multi-part series:

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Speaking of neolib economics, their obsession with austerity is why the economy can not get back on trackk:

When Moyers asked what the Treasury should do to help the economy, he said, “Campaign against this austerity obsession. We’re not going to get a big new stimulus package, much as I would like to see it. No, we’re not going to get it this year, anyway. But I’d like to see him saying when somebody says, ‘Well, we need to slash here, we need to slash there.’ And he would say ‘Why would we want to be doing that now? That’s actually going to hurt the economy.’”


“This is the same kind of animal that we confronted in the ’30s. This is depression economics. And the nature of the solution is not really very different now from what it was then,” he said later.

“Depression economics is when the normal things you do to boost the economy, have the Federal Reserve cut interest rates a little bit, are no longer available or effective. It’s a situation where the normal rules of what you– of economic policy, have to be put on hold, and you really need to do extraordinary stuff,” he explained.

Does Obama really believe this? I doubt it; he, too, likes austerity policies.