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johnny9fingers) wrote2013-04-16 04:08 pm
johnny9fingers) wrote2013-04-16 04:08 pm
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At the risk of saying I told you so...
We have the ex-Keynesian but now neo-Monetarist IMF World Economic Outlook report Chapters 1 and 2 here:
http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/weo/2013/01/pdf/c1.pdf
http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/weo/2013/01/pdf/c2.pdf
And even it is advising George Osborne to relax his austerity programme.
I wonder, could some of the IMF bods actually be beginning to remember what the IMF was formed to do? That would be a turn-up, now wouldn't it?
Nevertheless, I can't see it happening: our present government has too much riding on it never being wrong. The loss of face would be so tremendous as to call into question its competence.
Not that any of us could ever be accused of calling George incompetent. Much.
http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/weo/2013/01/pdf/c1.pdf
http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/weo/2013/01/pdf/c2.pdf
And even it is advising George Osborne to relax his austerity programme.
I wonder, could some of the IMF bods actually be beginning to remember what the IMF was formed to do? That would be a turn-up, now wouldn't it?
Nevertheless, I can't see it happening: our present government has too much riding on it never being wrong. The loss of face would be so tremendous as to call into question its competence.
Not that any of us could ever be accused of calling George incompetent. Much.