[acjohnson55]

You're applying proverbial thinking to an extremely complex, emergent system. The reality is that many aspects of the economy can be manipulated, but the consequences of doing (or not doing) anything never completely clear. People are constantly pointing to indicators that they feel are signs of the apocalypse, the excess of central bank activism, or the ineptitude of politicians to enact fiscal policy. Out of a million different assertions, some of them are going to eventually be right.