The National Bureau of Economic Research is in charge about determining the recession, which is defined a six -month (2 quarters) consecutive decline in real GDP. Now, everybody agrees that we are in recession. Some call it the Great Recession.
Based on your beliefs and ideologies about public policies, would you favor a “hand off approach” or “hand on approach” to combat the Great recessionof 2008?
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It has already been a strong case of hand on approach. If we’d let the free market work it’s magic then many of these giant banks and inneficient multi-nationals would have gone bust. This would have had a catastrophic effect on people’s wealth and people have estimated that world GDP would have fallen up to 30%, instead of the 5% we saw.
However the free market is the optimum tool for ironing out inefficiencies and perhaps in the long run that would have benefitted us all more. In fact I’d perhaps go as far as to say it would have. Risky investors know they’re got a nice safety cushion now.
It’s a little late for the laissez-fair approach. A shame, really, because that’s what I would have said. Now the government has told people in effect, “hey, don’t worry about your stupid decisions that landed you in this mess, we’ll cover for you.”