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I keep noting one tiny detail being omitted from the pollyanna reports: What will fuel the recovery?  Where are the affordable inputs, such as capital and raw materials?  And where will the demand come from, given that the entire planet is leveraged?

If there is nothing to create recovery, we are in for long-term stagnation, which, given continued concentration of wealth, means most people continue to lose ground.  Thus further eroding any chance for a recovery.  And creating further decline.  And making protectionism more likely.  Etc., etc., etc.

by rifek on Tue Jun 2nd, 2009 at 08:14:21 PM EST
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I posted this

Eats Green Shoots and Leaves

on my blog last night,and it should appear on the Labour List blog later today, I think, in between the resignations.....

"Any economic unit can emit money. The serious problem is to get it accepted" Hyman Minsky

by ChrisCook (cojockathotmaildotcom) on Wed Jun 3rd, 2009 at 06:28:21 AM EST
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Raw materials? If they are needed, they will be created through the sheer force of demand.

To be serious, I think we will see the economic history of the 19th century backwards. A series bubbles and crises, each ending on a lower level of total economic ouput.

A vote for PES is a vote for EPP! A vote for EPP is a vote for PES! Support the coalition, vote EPP-PES in 2009!

by A swedish kind of death on Wed Jun 3rd, 2009 at 10:11:33 AM EST
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Our power rings better be in the mail.
by tjbuff (timhess@adelphia.net) on Wed Jun 3rd, 2009 at 10:59:28 AM EST
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