Wednesday, May 2, 2012

Coordinated Austerity

from Paul Krugman's blog
 
May 1, 2012

Antonia Fatas points out that there was a sharp turn to austerity on both sides of Atlantic in 2010 — which is a large factor in the weakness of economies in both places:

But guess who didn't make an equally sharp turn? (All data from Eurostat)

In general, everything — everything — you hear conventionally, from the legend of Irish recovery to the legend of German austerity is just not true.

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/

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