There are many small businesses capable of installing medium scale systems if the country chose to fix those two “problems”.

I’m going with health care investment as job one-A, which should not wait around while the new energy economy gets going. Among other big ticket items, it’s going to cost a lot to get people to go along with transitioning from their jobs in the insurance industry and into something else or something similar.

Year-round crop production; 1 indoor acre is equivalent to 4-6 outdoor acres or more, depending upon the crop (e.g., strawberries: 1 indoor acre = 30 outdoor acres)
No weather-related crop failures due to droughts, floods, pests
All VF food is grown organically: no herbicides, pesticides, or fertilizers
VF virtually eliminates agricultural runoff by recycling black water
VF returns farmland to nature, restoring ecosystem functions and services
VF greatly reduces the incidence of many infectious diseases that are acquired at the agricultural interface
VF converts black and gray water into potable water by collecting the water of
evapotranspiration
VF adds energy back to the grid via methane generation from composting non-edible
parts of plants and animals
VF dramatically reduces fossil fuel use (no tractors, plows, shipping.)
VF converts abandoned urban properties into food production centers
VF creates sustainable environments for urban centers
VF creates new employment opportunities
We cannot go to the moon, Mars, or beyond without first learning to farm indoors on
earth
VF may prove to be useful for integrating into refugee camps
VF offers the promise of measurable economic improvement for tropical and subtropical
LDCs. If this should prove to be the case, then VF may be a catalyst in helping to reduce or even reverse the population growth of LDCs as they adopt urban agriculture as a strategy for sustainable food production.
VF could reduce the incidence of armed conflict over natural resources, such as water
and land for agriculture

In Jane’s thread on the mothership about the Big 3 and BK, there was a discussion about the Dutch and their system of dikes, where they actually built one that was environmentally friendly to allow one of the estuaries to remain salt water in order not to destroy the unique habitat that exists at the end of that estuary near Roosendaal.

I meant: unnecessarily prolonged the depression

The deflation fight in the 1930s prolonged the agony rather than curtailed it.

is false Conventional Wisdom.

Paul Krugman smacked down George Will this past Sunday on This Week and pointed out the return to “balanced budgets” in 1937 actually unnecessarily prolonged the recession.

What measures do you refer to here?

“The measures that have been taken already in the present circumstances are by all measures historically doomed to failure and likely will end with a period of hyperinflation.”

Frankly, we have NOT seen large government works projects tried since World War II. If I am incorrect here, please provide links to articles or other type of sourcing making your point here. The only measures the central government has provided so far have been relatively small stimulus checks, which I personally used to pay off my credit cards and the injection of large sums of capital into the financial system – something that I feel is ill-advised and poorly thought out. These are not the measures that I discuss in my post.

As stated in the article above, in cases of deflation, one of the proven methods is to inject more money into the economy. We are in a different situation than say, the Weimar Republic (we have a tad quicker access to information now than then) or Argentina in early 90s. (dollars, as the world-wide safe currency of choice are actually more in a demand as we have seen a rise in the dollar compared to other currencies in the last 6 months)

With the access to quick information that we now have, competent management (and I will grant you that that is a large question mark still) will pick up signs of inflation fast enough so that we are able to raise interest rates again and put them back to historical levels.

Economists out there – am I missing something?