用简单易懂的RAP的让很多普通人目前的经济状况

We’ve been goingback and forth for a century

[Keynes] I want tosteer markets,

[Hayek] I wantthem set free

There’s a boom andbust cycle and good reason to fear it

[Hayek] Blame lowinterest rates.

[Keynes] No… it’sthe animal spirits

[Keynes Sings:]

John MaynardKeynes, wrote the book on modern macro

The man you needwhen the economy’s off track, [whoa]

Depression,recession now your question’s in session

Have a seat andI’ll school you in one simple lesson

BOOM, 1929 the bigcrash

We didn’t bounce back—economy’sin the trash

Persistentunemployment, the result of sticky wages

Waiting forrecovery? Seriously? That’s outrageous!

I had a real planany fool can understand

The advice, realsimple—boost aggregate demand!

C, I, G, alltogether gets to Y

Make sure thetotal’s growing, watch the economy fly

We’ve been goingback and forth for a century

[Keynes] I want tosteer markets,

[Hayek] I wantthem set free

There’s a boom andbust cycle and good reason to fear it

[Hayek] Blame lowinterest rates.

[Keynes] No… it’sthe animal spirits

You see it’s allabout spending, hear the register cha-ching

Circular flow, thedough is everything

So if that flow isgetting low, doesn’t matter the reason

We need moregovernment spending, now it’s stimulus season

So forget aboutsaving, get it straight out of your head

Like I said, inthe long run—we’re all dead

Savings isdestruction, that’s the paradox of thrift

Don’t keep moneyin your pocket, or that growth will never lift…

because…

Business is drivenby the animal spirits

The bull and thebear, and there’s reason to fear its

Effects on capitalinvestment, income and growth

That’s why thestate should fill the gap with stimulus both…

The monetary andthe fiscal, they’re equally correct

Public works,digging ditches, war has the same effect

Even a brokenwindow helps the glass man have some wealth

The multiplierdriving higher the economy’s health

And if the CentralBank’s interest rate policy tanks

A liquidity trap,that new money’s stuck in the banks!

Deficits could bethe cure, you been looking for

Let the spendingsoar, now that you know the score

My GeneralTheory’s made quite an impression

[a revolution] Itransformed the econ profession

You know me,modesty, still I’m taking a bow

Say it loud, sayit proud, we’re all Keynesians now

We’ve been goin’back n forth for a century

[Keynes] I want tosteer markets,

[Hayek] I wantthem set free

There’s a boom andbust cycle and good reason to fear it

[Keynes] I made mycase, Freddie H

Listen up , Canyou hear it?

Hayek sings:

I’ll begin inbroad strokes, just like my friend Keynes

His theoryconceals the mechanics of change,

That simpleequation, too much aggregation

Ignores humanaction and motivation

And yet itcontinues as a justification

For bailouts andpayoffs by pols with machinations

You provide themwith cover to sell us a free lunch

Then all thatwe’re left with is debt, and a bunch

If you’re livinghigh on that cheap credit hog

Don’t look forcure from the hair of the dog

Real savings comefirst if you want to invest

The marketcoordinates time with interest

Your focus onspending is pushing on thread

In the long run,my friend, it’s your theory that’s dead

So sorry there,buddy, if that sounds like invective

Prepared to getschooled in my Austrian perspective

We’ve been goingback and forth for a century

[Keynes] I want tosteer markets,

[Hayek] I wantthem set free

There’s a boom andbust cycle and good reason to fear it

[Hayek] Blame lowinterest rates.

[Keynes] No… it’sthe animal spirits

The place youshould study isn’t the bust

It’s the boom thatshould make you feel leery, that’s the thrust

Of my theory, thecapital structure is key.

Malinvestmentswreck the economy

The boom getsstarted with an expansion of credit

The Fed sets rateslow, are you starting to get it?

That new money isconfused for real loanable funds

But it’s justinflation that’s driving the ones

Who invest in newprojects like housing construction

The boom plantsthe seeds for its future destruction

The savings aren’treal, consumption’s up too

And the graspingfor resources reveals there’s too few

So the boom turnsto bust as the interest rates rise

With the costs ofproduction, price signals were lies

The boom was abinge that’s a matter of fact

Now its devaluedcapital that makes up the slack.

Whether it’s thelate twenties or two thousand and five

Booming badinvestments, seems like they’d thrive

You must save toinvest, don’t use the printing press

Or a bust willsurely follow, an economy depressed

Your so-called“stimulus” will make things even worse

It’s just more ofthe same, more incentives perversed

And that creditcrunch ain’t a liquidity trap

Just a brokebanking system, I’m done, that’s a wrap.

We’ve been goin’back n forth for a century

[Keynes] I want tosteer markets,

[Hayek] I wantthem set free

There’s a boom andbust cycle and good reason to fear it

[Hayek] Blame lowinterest rates.

[Keynes] No it’sthe animal spirits