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Yeah everyone involved in that should have been shot. That's part of what led to the situation we have today.

Short term thinking dominates economics these days. Managing the current downturn is most important, when people ask about longterm implications do a bunch of hand wavy stuff about it being temporary and then kick the can to the next guys who do the same thing.

> Short term thinking dominates economics these days.

Especially among people criticizing the response to 2008/2020.

Failing to mitigate sickness in capital markets and the economy in the short term would have inflicted far more damage in the long term.

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