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BUDAPEST, Oct 11 (Reuters) - Hungarian Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany proposed on Saturday freezing real wages until the middle of next year due to risks posed by the global financial crisis. "Let's consider that we go along with the current wages from Jan. 1 (2009), maintaining real wages, and there will be a wage hike only from July 1," he told an extraordinary congress of his Socialist Party. The congress met to discuss the political situation as the Socialists have been ruling in minority since April and seek parliament support for the key tax and budget bills amid the global crisis which is seen cutting economic growth. The government announced measures on Friday to shore up steep price falls in the country's financial markets, including cuts in state debt issuance and the redrafting of the 2008 and 2009 budgets, aiming at lower than earlier planned deficits. Gyurcsany said deep cuts in the deficit since 2006 reduced Hungary's vulnerability to the global crisis and the banking system was strong, but further measures were needed to fend off the financial and real economic impacts of the crisis. "In the past days, an attack hit Hungary (markets)," he said. "In these days we are taking concrete measures, we strengthen Hungary's defence ability with a series of measures."
by Fran (fran at eurotrib dot com) on Sun Oct 12th, 2008 at 03:00:25 PM EST
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The problems were created by too much debt and not enough real incomes, so let's provide a lot more cheap debt, and cut incomes.

Way to go!

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes

by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Sun Oct 12th, 2008 at 05:31:32 PM EST
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