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"[...] How do we know that our modest policy agenda, which constitutes our red line, is right in Kant’s terms? We know by looking into the eyes of the hungry in the streets of our cities or contemplating our stressed middle class, or considering the interests of hard-working people in every European village and city within our monetary union..." Yanis Varoufakis
"No Time for Games in Europe"
by Yanis Varoufakis, February 16, 2015
nytimes.com/2015/02/17/opinion/yanis-varoufakis-no-time-for-games-in-europe.html?_r=0
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Read also Michael Hudson’s
“Democracy and Debt” December 3, 2011
michael-hudson.com/2011/12/democracy-and-debt
"[…] The private bank debts taken onto government balance sheets in Ireland and Greece have been turned into taxpayer obligations… This is being dictated by financial proxies euphemized as technocrats. Designated by creditor lobbyists, their role is to calculate just how much unemployment and depression is needed to squeeze out a surplus to pay creditors for debts now on the books. What makes this calculation self-defeating is the fact that economic shrinkage – debt deflation – makes the debt burden even more unpayable."
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„Athenae Delenda Est“
by Paul Krugman, Feb 16, 2015
krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/02/16/athenae-delenda-est
krugman.blogs.nytimes.com
"[...] How do we know that our modest policy agenda, which constitutes our red line, is right in Kant’s terms? We know by looking into the eyes of the hungry in the streets of our cities or contemplating our stressed middle class, or considering the interests of hard-working people in every European village and city within our monetary union..." Yanis Varoufakis
"No Time for Games in Europe"
by Yanis Varoufakis, February 16, 2015
nytimes.com/2015/02/17/opinion/yanis-varoufakis-no-time-for-games-in-europe.html?_r=0
...
Read also Michael Hudson’s
“Democracy and Debt” December 3, 2011
michael-hudson.com/2011/12/democracy-and-debt
"[…] The private bank debts taken onto government balance sheets in Ireland and Greece have been turned into taxpayer obligations… This is being dictated by financial proxies euphemized as technocrats. Designated by creditor lobbyists, their role is to calculate just how much unemployment and depression is needed to squeeze out a surplus to pay creditors for debts now on the books. What makes this calculation self-defeating is the fact that economic shrinkage – debt deflation – makes the debt burden even more unpayable."
... ...
„Athenae Delenda Est“
by Paul Krugman, Feb 16, 2015
krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/02/16/athenae-delenda-est
krugman.blogs.nytimes.com
