Thursday, June 7, 2012

The Very Serious, Very Crazy People

Martin Wolf at Financial Times, via The Professor:
Austerians - Brit PM Cameron and German Chancellor Merkel


Before now, I had never really understood how the 1930s could happen. Now I do. All one needs are fragile economies, a rigid monetary regime, intense debate over what must be done, widespread belief that suffering is good, myopic politicians, an inability to co-operate and failure to stay ahead of events.

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