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Former Obama adviser Jason Furman, former chairman of the council of economic advisers, says the current stock market crash is more like 1929 than 2008. He lays the procedures that given the political will, will mitigate the damage.
The current Stock Market crash like 1929, not 2008
MSNBC’s “The Last Word” host Lawrence O’Donnell pointed out that former Obama adviser & director of the Council of Economic Advisers already implied that the current stock market crash was more similar to the genesis of the 1929 Great Depression than to the 2008 Great Recession. O’Donnell said that after re-reading the book “The Great Crash 1929” he noticed that the same statements being made in 1929 prior to the crash are the same being made now. The president, many in the financial sector, and administration officials continue to state that the market will bounce back.
Furman stated that the administration had to be very proactive and interventionist in the economy to mitigate the direction it is heading. Even as the budget deficit is huge as well as the national debt, checks should be sent out to every American to prime the economy in addition to paid leave, unemployment insurance, and much more.
Ironically, all of this sounds like tenets of Modern Monetary Theory which if implemented would lift every American out of poverty irrespective of the speculative nature of the stock market. Ironically these are all issues only Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, and to some extent, Andrew Yang and John Steyer spoke about in the Democratic Primary.
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Oh, no! Like the crash of ’29?! I’ll have to jump out of my ground floor window!
Crud, window’s too small, so I had to settle for jumping out of the door next to it.
More seriously though, I always did find it odd that the crash of 1929 was such a horrifically shocking event as to drive people to suicide, while the influenza pandemic certainly turned the stock market into modern art and none tried to self-harm.
Well, other than out of fear for influenza or the fear of going on without one’s deceased family.*
*Yes, there was a long wave of suicides from either fear of the influenza pandemic or due to depression after losing one’s family to it. May mankind never have to see such horrors again!