Should monetary and fiscal policymakers influence economic fluctuations to stabilize the economy?

Question

If so, when? If not, why not?

Answer 1

They are attempting to, but it takes about 12-18 months for any changes in monetary policy to have a real effect. The economy isn't a sports car able to take off on command.

Answer 2

Don't you read. How do you think we got into this mess. The policy makers are who turn a blind eye and deaf ear as we spent trillions on war, gave hundreds of billions in bad loans, and now you think they are going to be intelligent enough to fix this. Not a chance. Slowly this will fall apart. It is the American people that will fix this once we hit the bottom of the well. Give it a year, maybe two.

Answer 3

The question is no longer "should", they have, they are , and they will. Whether or not it is good for anybody but them is is the real question. We are already trapped by the monetary system they put in place to make themselves wealthy, now we sit around and beg them to fix it and they don't. Why? Because they are getting exactly what they want from it, our poverty, our submission. They have the power and the money so they already have the influences. You and I will just keep typing about it here while they spend it and laugh at us from there mansions.