Morning Must-Read: Larry Summers: Speech at the IMF Economic Forum, November 8, 2013

Larry Summers: IMF Economic Forum, November 8, 2013:

Now think about the period after the financial crisis. I always like to think of these crises as analogous to a power failure, or analogous to what would happen if all the telephones were shut off for a time. The network would collapse. The connections would go away. Output would of course drop very rapidly. There’d be a set of economists who would sit around explaining that electricity was only four percent of the economy, and so if you lost eighty percent of electricity you could not possibly have lost more than three percent of the economy. There would be people in Minnesota and Chicago and stuff who’d be writing that paper. But it would be stupid. It would be stupid…