Even Paul Krugman (when writing as an economist that is) seems to think that fiscal stimulus simply buys time rather than it is a solution.
Whether you call it political corruption seems to be a point of view more than anything else.
No, tariffs are not the solution and one reason is that you've got to assume that everyone else does nothing about them.
Automating tasks is how we progress: but there might be those who will game an automated system.
A textbook example of creative destruction in action.
History is supposed to repeat itself, first as tragedy, then as farce. Not, as in this case, a tragedy repeating a farce.
And finally, fun for all. The internet anagram server.