"The problem with socialism is you eventually run out of other people's money" - Margaret Thatcher
"The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design" - F.A. Hayek
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Don't blame it on the Germans. They are the only ones over there with any sense.
I don't agree with these sentiments, which implicitly argue against a lender-of-last-resort role for the ECB, i.e., they fail to distinguish between liquidity and solvency crises. Also, it's not compelling to assert that the "Germans are at least telling the truth," e.g., German leaders are not being particular truthful when they fail to emphasize to their self-satisfied burghers that the local economic "miracle," all else equal, is due to their fixed exchange rate via the Club-Med countries.
I saw you speaking at the City Hall today (at least I was 98% sure it was you). Wish I could have said hello. I enjoy your blog when I have time.
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I don't agree with these sentiments, which implicitly argue against a lender-of-last-resort role for the ECB, i.e., they fail to distinguish between liquidity and solvency crises. Also, it's not compelling to assert that the "Germans are at least telling the truth," e.g., German leaders are not being particular truthful when they fail to emphasize to their self-satisfied burghers that the local economic "miracle," all else equal, is due to their fixed exchange rate via the Club-Med countries.
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