"Fixing the economy"....unfortunately it's not a machine that can be fixed but an ecosystem. Strangely it's the same people who argue that ecosystems are so complex we can't interfere in them simultaneously argue that the economy is so simple that we can.
This government spending multiplier. Is it higher than one, less than one, or even possibly negative?
The Easterlin Paradox resolved or, no, inequality doesn't matter that much.
The real reason there's a squabble about short selling.