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We are not suffering right now from a lack of capacity to produce. We are suffering from a lack of demand for our output. And so, increasing the level of demand. Has to be the primary priority for our economy. It is not true that capitalist economies always naturally and automatically get themselves to be fully employed. And successful. It's kind of air brushed over in most history books, but it's a fact that, or it's a very likely conjecture, that if World War II and the set of expenses associated with rearmament. Had come, had not come along. Franklin Roosevelt would've left office in 1940. An unsuccessful president with a double digit unemployment rate. Followed by an opponent, followed by someone from the opposite party. And so it seems to me that the overwhelming priority for this moment has to be finding ways to increase demand. Inflation after all is not going up, it is coming down And so, I think the orientation of policy towards promoting demand is the right one. You know, most financial error takes a single form. It is that people do today what they wish they had done yesterday. That's how all bubbles happen. People wish they bought a house two years ago cuz house prices are skyrocketing, and they buy one now. And then that's what propels the bubble. The people who were unlucky enough to sell at the bottom are the people who wished they'd sold a year ago and now decide that they have to sell. And in the same way, policy makes that same error. Something I've said many times, is that it is the central irony of financial crisis that while it is caused by too much confidence, too much lending, and too much spending. It is only resolved. When there is increased confidence, increased lending, and [ MUSIC ] increased spending. 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