<p>article titles like this 'Europe heading for deeper recession, as lack of demand puts manufacturers in a slump’ make it seem bad.</p>
<p>but why?</p>
<p>It’s like a directtv commercial. If people don’t buy, then businesses go bankrupt. If businesses go bankrupt, then workers lose their jobs. If workers loose their jobs, then we have to blame it on our government. If you blame things on the government, secret agents throw you in a ditch. Don’t get thrown in a ditch. Go to Walmart :)</p>
<p>I prefer to think of it as a “Let’s ‘stimulate’ markets, even in up times, so that people will spend more than the economy as a whole can realistically handle. Then, when people realize that the economy can’t handle that level of production and a readjustment begins, let’s keep trying to push people forward, so that we can have a longer, more damaging recession. It worked before. You know, the first time it was tried, when a normal cyclical recession somehow miraculously became the only Depression in our nation’s history.”</p>
<p>Without demand or production, an economy does not exist. Assuming non-subsidization, actionable demand and production are mutually necessary: People must want what is to be produced in order for it to be produced, and it must be produced in order for demand to be exhibited. </p>
<p>The exchange of productions is the basis of markets, wherein equilibrium coextensivity of supply and demand is optimal. If buyers are hesitant, production will decline commensurately. Productivity falls. The economy recesses. Action upon demand can be excessive when debt accrual overwhelms productivity benefits or when regulatory checks on financing fail as occurred in the last decade. These events are exceptions to the general, integral principle, however.</p>
<p>haha goodnoodle i love your comment … i think it exposes the confusion that exists once you peel back the layers sufficiently quite nicely :). </p>
<p>omg, jimbo and silverturtle commented on my thread <em>squeals</em></p>
<p>it is so upsetting to me how people are spending their money and time… so little real value is being generated, and people are working so hard. it breaks my heart to see it.</p>