Dr Alf’s Two Cents: Hail the outbreak of honesty about Greece’s bailout – FT.com

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This is a very good article by Wolfgang Münchau writing in the FT. It’s a RECOMMENDED READ. Check it out!

via Hail the outbreak of honesty about Greece’s bailout – FT.com.

I very much endorse this article and in particular the conclusion:

 If the IMF is serious about its own analysis – and it should be – it should either force a policy change, or be ready to leave the troika.

Sadly, I fear that the EC and the German Government is likely to stick to excessive austerity, rather than face the political crisis of a U-turn.

Any thoughts?

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Dr Alf’s Two Cents: The Big Shrug – NYTimes.com – Paul Krugman

Paul Krugman, Laureate of the Sveriges Riksban...

Paul Krugman, Laureate of the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2008 at a press conference at the Swedish Academy of Science in Stockholm (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

This is a brilliant MUST READ article from Paul Krugman, Nobel Prize winning, liberal, economist, in his Op-Ed blog in the NYT.

The Big Shrug – NYTimes.com.

For me, the austerians in Washington, London and Berlin still dominate the political classes and are dealing the cards; this is despite excessive austerity being totally discredited this year by the vast majority of top-class economists, including the IMF.

Any thoughts?

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