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@gspaulsson said "where else would Hitchens or Kennedy go?"

They both had more than enough money to go anywhere in the world. But they didn't jet to London or Toronto, two of the places they publicly declare as having superior healthcare to the USA. They beelined it to Duke and MD Anderson. Dann...

"If Obama and Congress had given a stimulus of the scale that people like myself said was necessary and that had failed then we could have discussion..."

No, Krugman would just move the goalposts like he always does with something like "well the downturn was more severe than even we anticipated....

Taking it even a step further, author Kenneth Friedman argues that if Halsey had left a single destroyer guarding San Bernadino Strait they would have at least sighted Kurita's Center Force and provided ample warning to the Taffy task groups. Instead Sprague didn't know of the Japanese threat unt...

By contrast, Hoover's former boss Warren Harding responded to an even more precipitous decline than 1929's or 2008's (the deflationary Depression of 1920). He slashed government spending by a third.

Kruggy logic argues that should have worsened and lengthened the slump for years and years. Did ...

I'm pretty sure he means Keynes. He cites a quote from 1936 which is the year Keynes' General Theory was written. And Skidelsky wrote "Keynes: Return of the Master."

aggregate demand that he wants to restore was all a Fed inflated illusion to start with. Consumer behavior was distorted by the Fed generated bubble and collapsed with the bust. Now he says the solution is "create the illusion again" so consumer spending will return to its previously unsustainab...

I don't think any Canadians are arguing their system is perfect. The only people I hear making that argument are liberals here in the U.S.