A superior kind of Fed stimulus

Both the crisis and the apparent boom before it were caused by the change in private debt. Rising aggregate private debt adds to demand, and falling debt subtracts from it. This point is vehemently denied on conventional theoretical grounds by economists like Paul Krugman, but it is obvious in the empirical data. The crisis itself began in 2008, precisely when the growth of private debt plunged from its peak of almost 30 per cent of GDP per annum. down to its depth of minus 20 per cent in 2010. The recovery, such as it was, began when the rate of decline of debt slowed. Across recession, boom and bust between 1990 and 2012, the correlation between the annual change in private debt and the unemployment rate was -0.92.

http://www.businessspectator.com.au/bs.nsf/Article/crisis-US-private-debt-depression-recession-jobs-pd20120723-WG248