You're right.  You don't know what aggregate demand means.

On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 12:40 PM, Louis Proyect <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 12/9/2010 12:35 PM, Max Sawicky wrote:
> > Meeropol's concern is the same as Baker, Galbraith,
> > and your humble correspondent -- we need every drop
> > of aggregate demand we can get now.  High unemployment
> > is toxic to the labor market and to politics in the longer
> > term.
>
> Aggregate demand? I am not sure what this bit of jargon means. But
> I do know this. Fortune 500 companies are sitting on oceans of
> cash but they are not hiring. What makes anybody think that if the
> men and women who own these companies get an extra ten million
> dollars they will invest it in job-creating ventures? More likely
> they will build another vacation home or Lamborghinis.
> Whoop-de-fuck-de-doo.
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