“If the Treasury were to fill old bottles with bank-notes, bury them at suitable depths in disused coal-mines which are then filled up to the surface with town rubbish, and leave it to private enterprise on well-tried principles of laissez-faire to dig the notes up again (the right to do so being obtained, of course, by tendering for leases of the note-bearing territory), there need be no more unemployment and, with the help of repercussions, the real income of the community, and its capital wealth, would probably become a good deal greater than it actually is.”– The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money (London: Macmillan, 1936), p. 129
From CNBC:
There's still a 100 percent chance the world heads into recession, Marc Faber, publisher of "The Gloom, Boom & Doom Report," told CNBC's "Closing Bell" on Thursday, echoing a call he made in May.
When you look at the major economies, Europe, the U.S., China and the emerging markets that are dependent on China for growth, Faber, aka Dr. Doom, only sees weakness.
"Europe is already in recession," he said. "Germany is still growing very, very slightly, but is likely to go into recession soon."
Growth in the U.S. is also falling off. "The U.S. economy has decelerated and I don't see much growth in the next six to 12 months," Faber said.
There's also little the Federal Reserve and other policy makers can do to turn the U.S. economy around. "I think that if you look at the injection of liquidity and the intervention by the Federal Reserve and the Treasury with fiscal measures, it has already impoverished the U.S. economy," he said....MORE
