... growth has ranged from the weak in Europe to the unspectacular in the United States. Banks are not lending. Unemployment is running at near double-digit levels in the US and the eurozone. The determination to cut budget deficits in these circumstances does not show that policymakers of probity and integrity have replaced the irresponsible spendthrifts of 2008 and 2009. It shows that the lunatics are back in charge of the asylum.Economic masochism is back in fashion. But just because it hurts does not mean that it's doing us any good.
14 June 2010
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Larry Elliott in The Guardian (here):
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Will Huttons Dispatches report, on Ch4 last night, made for some very scary viewing. The greedy bankers are back and at it again! Here's hoping Vince the Cable and the ConDems do the right thing when it comes to the banks and their morality!
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