He believed that boom-time malinvestments were responsible for the subsequent bust, much as binge-drinking is responsible for the next morning's hangover.
More than a decade of persistent monetary inflation, including the innovation of quantitative easing and long-term interest rate manipulation, spurred huge malinvestment in the public sector activity.
When it came to specific questions on inflation, the complaint was the cost of living and a related fall in living standards, the latter consistent with malinvestment.