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I am a Los Angeles-based columnist for Bloomberg BusinessWeek. I have also written for The Los Angeles Times, Newsday, The Chicago Tribune, Newsweek, The Los Angeles Daily News and Sunset magazine.
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You say it's a good thing, but it strikes me as a crazy premise for an economy--Have you read Happy Money, the science of smarter spending?
ReplyDeleteNo, I haven't read that. In this case, a stagnant economy that is driven 70 percent by consumer spending, it is a very good thing to see more economic activity.
ReplyDeleteLong term would we be better off if consumer spending was not the main driver of our economy? It certainly sounds like we would, but I'll leave that to the economists to decide.
The whole study of macroeconomics is so complicated I don't feel qualified to say one way or another.