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Krugman is saying the same as Steve Keen (h/t Chris Cook) in a "born-again Keynesian neoclassical" way:
My expectation is that, some time during 2010, the disconnect between the financial markets' euphoric expectations and the hard reality of a deleveraging private sector will bring the optimism of both "born again Keynesian" neoclassical economists and the markets to an end. Growth will not resume once the stimulus packages are removed, since deleveraging will then assert itself in the absence of government stimulus. Falling debt will subtract from growth, as it once added to it, and unemployment will start to rise again.


En un viejo país ineficiente, algo así como España entre dos guerras civiles, poseer una casa y poca hacienda y memoria ninguna. -- Gil de Biedma
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Mon Jan 4th, 2010 at 06:29:34 AM EST
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... and unemployment will start to rise again.

But that's not a problem because they can always phoney - up the statistics.

In the end, might makes right. Nothing has changed since the caveman.

by THE Twank (yatta blah blah @ blah.com) on Mon Jan 4th, 2010 at 08:37:33 AM EST
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