> Of course, Paul Krugman is wrong that "the financial industry got us into
> the mess". That is just his shallow liberal ideology shining through. The
> economy was stagnating already before the financial crisis broke out.
> Indeed
> Bob Pollin devoted a whole book to it in 2003, "Contours of descent".
> A low-interest rate, low-inflation economic policy was promoted by the
> bourgeoisie as a whole, which powerfully stimulated debt growth to make
> money from arbitrage. Debt became big business.
Hi Jurriaan:
Current monetary policies still aims to promote low interest and inflation
rates.
In solidarity, Jerry
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