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This is a good read from Heather Stewart in the Guardian.

Economics in 2012: no gain, just pain as austerity brings misery to all | Business | The Guardian.

It’s yet another anti-austerity article in the New Year‘s news.

Sometimes the media get the focus wrong but for me anything that paints a balanced view of the austerity argument is good journalism.

The point here is that voters need to share their views in France & Germany to challenge the prevailing Merkozy austerity line. Of course, in the US the Republican presidential candidates need to be pressed for their policies – there is a need for austerity to be the top political subject in the US election

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