It is necessary IMO to be analytical about what the government (hear meaning the Fed, which is private but empowered by government) is doing. At best, the eyes of most people glaze over within two minutes after most economists begin speaking, at least if they are demand-side theorists as those at the Fed are. Presently, the Fed is attempting to control all aspects, sector by sector, of the economy, but is doing a very bad job of it. It is as if we have turned the economy over to academic intellectuals, because they have convinced everyone the subject is too technical for anyone else to understand, and we are all doomed unless we allow them to do as they wish. That should be stopped, and the Fed should be required to do only one thing: provide currency with stable value.