2007 All Over Again, Part 4: "We Are Outsourcing Our Monetary Policy"

In that deservedly-famous 2006 CNBC debate between Peter Schiff and economist Arthur Laffer (in which the latter manages to be both arrogant and wrong about literally everything), Laffer celebrates the fact that “we are outsourcing our monetary policy to China” (minute 5:17).

Alert listeners probably wondered what he meant by that, and also probably found the idea vaguely disturbing. But whatever it was we were doing, it turned out to be bad because within a year the global economy was in free-fall.

And now that strange, ominous concept has returned. But this time around we’ve apparently put our monetary fate in even less-stable hands: