We’re hearing a lot of talk about “stimulus” these days. The word seems to serve as a bureaucratic euphemism for “bailout” or “throwing money at the problem” based on the discredited Keynesian/Marxist theory that prosperity can flow from debt in, with, and under the “divine” word of government. This approach is to economic policy what the adage “beatings will continue until morale improves” is to corporate culture. The word “stimulus” is itself interesting. It’s a Latin word, and it jumps out of the page in reading St. Paul’s famous passage of comfort used in Christian funerals, 1 Cor 15:55: “O … Continue reading O Death, Where Is Your Stimulus?