Archäologie CLXXV: The Superdupercommittee - Wir sinken nicht!
Der Untergang von "Atlantis West" aus der Komödie "Erik der Wikinger" von Terry Jones (Monty Python) mit Tim Robbins, John Cleese, u.a. Via als-ob-leben. Nunmehr 23 Jahre alt und wunderbar aktuell, dazu in großartiger Besetzung ...
+ Paul Krugman vs the superdupercommittee: Keynes was right in der NYTimes und heute in der Beilage der Süddeutschen Zeitung:
... So the real test of Keynesian economics hasn’t come from the half-hearted efforts of the U.S. federal government to boost the economy, which were largely offset by cuts at the state and local levels. It has, instead, come from European nations like Greece and Ireland that had to impose savage fiscal austerity as a condition for receiving emergency loans — and have suffered Depression-level economic slumps, with real G.D.P. in both countries down by double digits.
This wasn’t supposed to happen, according to the ideology that dominates much of our political discourse...
gebattmer - 2012/01/09 20:35
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