Yes, I think I was clear the financial bailout was needed. Agree completely on Austrian School -- theory that only works on blackboards.
It is not clear to me at all that banking regulations put in place have contributed to restrained growth. I believe growth has been pretty good, actually. Unemployment: I did a bit of economic and demographic forecasting in an earlier life. In a 1990 vintage effort, spinning off a DRI effort in part, this a 20 year projection, I noted unemployment was dropping in the out years, something I took closer look at, and it was and still remains clear that demographic were going to be a major driver of change -- a slowing of growth of the labor force. Here's a graph of it:
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www.pgpf.org/chart-archive/0256_labor_force_growth The slowdown of growth of the labor force, just one-fifth the growth of the 1970's, contributes to a tightening of the labor force. Lowering unemployment rate, all else constant, and in my strong opinion the US has been a bit lucky in this, lower unemployment rate with both increased globalization and increasing productivity each tending to increase not decrease employment in the USA. So, I'm not shocked by the low unemployment rate. Nor low mortgage rates -- a direct artifact of low inflation.
But the increasing income disparity is troublesome. I remain solidly in the "tax the rich" camp, something for me that does not reflect a political bent.