Amid all the arguing about the effectiveness of this or that kind of fiscal stimulus, the big liberal econ bloggers hadn't gotten around to publicly trashing "Real Business Cycle" theory, the mathematically simple but conceptually retarded theory whose main function has been to stop macroeconomists from making real progress for 25 years.
Well, today they got around to it.
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