Friday, October 7, 2011

The 1930s, and Worse

"Good msing from Paul Mason of BBC on how we make things worse from here:
So then, in the absence of decisive policy action, you get a sequence that goes: crash (2008); stimulus (2009); failure of stimulus (2011); second crash (2011/12); deflation; involuntary collapse of globalisation. In that situation, which I profoundly hope does not happen, every government becomes like the BrĂ¼ning administration in Germany after 1931, still trying to make the old policy work in the new world, increasingly resorting to decree..."
at  http://paul.kedrosky.com/archives/2011/10/the-1930s-and-worse.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+InfectiousGreed+%28Paul+Kedrosky%27s+Infectious+Greed%29