Talk:Economic policy

A request for help

I've done a fair bit of work on this and encourage others to join in ;-) The Land 18:24, 15 November 2005 (UTC)

Some more micro policy perhaps?—Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.67.118.128 (talk • contribs) 2006-05-05T06:16:57

Chicken and egg

Without insulting those who put this together, there does seem to be an academic bias here. In this sentence, "The government's economic policy determines the tools and hopes that they will achieve its goals," there is an assumption that the tools selected will work.

That may be the case in the OECD, but in developing economies policy is limited by the tools available. Take China as an example: monetary policy is hopeless, as there is a very low degree of debt penetration. Hence, more direct administrative measures have been used to direct or restrict lending. DOR (HK) (talk) 04:35, 3 March 2009 (UTC) At this stage of the movement, no one can incontrovertibly predict the status of Occupy Wall Street in a year, let alone in two or three, but that is beside the point. Occupy Wall Street's existence as a high-profile pressure group or not, unless the economic and social problems that gave rise to Occupy Wall Street are addressed and corrected, the pressure will not disappear.

Underscoring, barring some unforeseen event that dramatically lowers the unacceptably high 9.1 percent U.S. unemployment rate and increases real, median incomes, the election of a Republican president and/or a Tea Party-dominated Republican Congress will not cause the nation's economic and social problems to vanish.

Occupy Wall Street: According to Joseph Lazzaro, U.S. Editor of International Business Times

Tea Party and other conservative types will no-doubt counter with, The 2012 election will solve the nation's economic and social problems because all we need to do is cut taxes on upper-income groups -- a flat tax of 15 percent would be ideal -- and cut federal spending, and the free market will solve every problem, create all the jobs we need, and lead to prosperity for all.

The economic and social problems that gave rise to the Occupy Wall Street movement were triggered by a multitude of long-running trends that will not only not be solved by cutting taxes again for upper-income groups and/or cutting federal spending -- those two conservative proposals will make the problems worse. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Doublek4023 (talk • contribs) 14:13, 26 October 2012 (UTC)