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European countries need fiscal expansion and issuing debt to the public doesn't work - it has to be bought by the ECB by issuing new currency. Will Germany allow this?

Most economists teach a theoretical framework that has been shown to be fundamentally useless. -- James K. Galbraith
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Sat Apr 4th, 2009 at 04:29:31 AM EST
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Give it a couple of months.

The short-time employment subsidies for a lot of companies are due to run out over the course of the summer, with observers predicting an unemployment surge then. And the Bundestag elections are at the end of September.

If figure Merkel and Steinbrück are going to start getting Keynesainized round about June.

The fact is that what we're experiencing right now is a top-down disaster. -Paul Krugman

by dvx (dvx.clt ät gmail dotcom) on Sat Apr 4th, 2009 at 05:13:04 AM EST
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