Gary Becker and Richard Posner debate regulation. Here’s Posner:
…there should be no new regulatory measures until the depression reaches bottom and recovery begins (not that there can be certainty about when that point has been reached–there were several false bottoms in the 1930s depression). Any regulatory initiatives at this time will simply increase the already great uncertainty in which the financial industry is operating; and as Keynes pointed out, anything that increases uncertainty in a depression causes hoarding, which can in turn precipitate a deflation likely to deepen and protract an economic downturn.
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