42 Straight Months of Stupidly Optimistic Official Predictions About Economic Recovery

From Reason.com:

Once-a-month quotes from the Obama administration and the media about how the economy will be booming any minute now:

Washington economic experts have been proclaiming that economic recovery is right around the corner since before they were sure the patient was sick.

For those of us who have been saying all along that none of the economic interventions since 2007 would revive the economy—

not the rescue of Bear Stearns and other financial institutions; not the Troubled Asset Relief Program; not the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act; not Quantitative Easings I, II, and III; not the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; not Cash for Clunkers or Solyndra or the bailouts of Chrysler and General Motors—

the cavalcade of wrongheaded, fantastical economic analysis coming out of official Washington and its media in recent years would be hilarious if it were not so infuriating.

The granddaddy of these economic inanities is Federal Reserve Bank chairman Ben Bernanke's March 2009 declaration that he could see economic "green shoots":

   "I think as those green shoots begin to appear in different markets and as some confidence begins to come back, that will begin the positive dynamic that brings our economy back."

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