Almost losing an eye to wasps is fun
Happily enough, I took an antihistamine just minutes before it happened.
re: Trump, he's made his name in Chicago, which is pretty famously anti-gun (at least in its establishment). I don't know where that puts him exactly, but there's the association at least.
re: That WaPo blog post, he seems to be right on the money except for Keynes, overlooking that (for example) public sector spending suffers under austerity measures, which we have been following to an extent, behind the Greeks. Calling Keynesian economists cheerleaders for bailouts is
pretty misleading, too. Having business is still important; having a sensible economic model is still important. Out of all the models, Keynes' offers the most tools; following it allows a government to be simultaneously socialist and business-friendly. We just haven't had anybody in government seriously following that plan.
On top of that, the shark analogy shows up one of the hairy things about life in general. Not just in systems deemed "an economy," but in living systems in general, there has to be more input into the system than comes out of it, or else there can't be any growth or evolution - in a literal sense.
I have said before that I think that traditional economic development might slow down within our lifetimes, at which point a lot of these problems will return with a vengeance. I'm not sure what's a worse set of problems to have - it will likely be the case that slowing development at "the top" will lead to a necessary refocus to development everywhere else, though it will be bumpy getting that done.
Edit: Another example of real Keynes in action here:
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/0 ... ens-again/
And again, Keynesians & Greece:
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/0 ... pocalypse/
Always good to remember that Larry Summers isn't really a Keynesian.
