That's a headline, and answer, I expect to keep using for some time. This time, it's occasioned by these two posts from Paul Krugman:
[T]he Fed expects unemployment to come down only very gradually — over 9 percent at the end of 2010, over 8 percent at the end of 2011, around 7 percent at the end of 2012. Inflation, meanwhile is expected to remain consistently below the Fed’s target.
Disastrously high unemployment, persisting years into the future, combined with inflation consistently below the Fed’s 2 percent target (and I’d argue both that the prediction is too high and that the target is too low).
Why is this considered OK, as opposed to desperately requiring action?
Because Versailles
sucks.
Bear in mind that the predicted unemployment rate in 2012 — 2012! — is higher than the rate that let Bill Clinton run on “it’s the economy, stupid”.
But things are working out very well for them. So why should they worry about the peasants?
Look! Over there! Sarah Palin!
NOTE Versailles, of course, includes both parties, the press, the access bloggers, and the banksters who own them.
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And Ill keep repeating it over and over again...
Third party time.
I will not tolerate perpetual suckitude.
Nothing is true; everything is permitted.
access bloggers
you are too hard upon them. they are the first signs of an alternative media universe. Yes, they got the primary wrong, yes they drank HCANT's kool aide, but they still do wonderful word. FDL book salon provides great exposure for authors who would otherwise get any. And Hamsher provides a voice of fresh air on TV.
When the collapse comes, and I don't see anything to stop it, the high traffic bloggers will be there to set up the new regime.
But there is a whole second wave of bloggers coming, and that is a very good thing.