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In the interim, an IMF intervention and a rescue of the Central-Eastern European economies by encouraging Western Banks to not bail themselves out of their Central-Eastern European investments, going by the name of "the Vienna Initiative" has been in place since 2009.
We're going to have another round of currency crises in the same countries we have already had to rescue? Economics is politics by other means
You're going to have countries going further into recession, making it harder for them to service their debt, that will be seen and responded to as a currency crisis.
The ECB, et.al., is dealing with the symptom, not the problem. Ever since I learnt about confirmation bias I've started seeing it everywhere
So you're saying another three iterations of Teh Stupid: One to realise that it's a currency crisis (European Tribune: Get your news two years early), but deal with it by the IMF playbook. Another one to realise that maybe it's time to dust off the proper policy response (John Maynard Keynes: Get your policy response eighty years early). And a third one to actually get their act together and convince even the dumbest Bild Zeitung reading meatbrain that Keynes was right all along.
What great fun. Maybe I should move to Germany.
- Jake If you only spend 20 minutes of the rest of your life on economics, go spend them here.
The recent boffo-socko idea of a BALANCED BUDGET!!1!11!!eleventyone!!!! is Yet Another bit of evidence showing how removed from reality TPTB are. Ever since I learnt about confirmation bias I've started seeing it everywhere
Maybe I should move to Germany.
Why bother? German policy, at a minimum, is coming to you. As the Dutch said while fighting the Spanish: "It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."
Germany policy is designed to benefit Germany.
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