Reviving the Animal Spirits
The world’s fundamental economic problem today is a staggering loss of business confidence - a weakening of what Keynes called the "animal spirits." One reason is that people know enough about the Great Depression to understand that, unlike previous economic convulsions, there are parallels with today.
NEW HAVEN – The world’s fundamental economic problem today is a staggering loss of business confidence. Commercial banks, investment banks, and hedge funds all owe their ongoing trouble to its decline, which in turn is jeopardizing the plans of companies and entrepreneurs to launch enterprises and make investments, and of households to consume.