If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
... and you are tossing trillions of dollars at the system that keeps the banks alive, and unemployment keeps on being there, and everybody says 'we are on the road to recovery...' road to recovery? What are you talking about?
It was clear to me that the cure would not come from a repetition of the old policies of borrowing and reflation... To find a solution to the crisis we need to explore the "underworld", as Keynes described it, the world where economists who had gone out of fashion lived.
Economics today is roughly where astronomy was before the invention of the telescope.