Paul Krugman (with ‘Keynes’ the cat).
Dire predictions? He’s got a Nobel for them.
And every slight uptick in an austerity economy has been hailed as proof that the policy works. Irish austerity has been proclaimed a success story not once but twice, first in the summer of 2010, then again last fall; each time the supposed good news quickly evaporated.
You may ask what alternative countries like Greece and Ireland had, and the answer is that they had and have no good alternatives short of leaving the euro, an extreme step that, realistically, their leaders cannot take until all other options have failed — a state of affairs that, if you ask me, Greece is rapidly approaching.
What Greece Means (Paul Krugman, New York Times)
Meanwhile…
@broadsheet_ie Your Paul Krugman picture was broken so I fixed it! twitter.com/deezoid/status…
— Dee Cunniffe (@deezoid) March 12, 2012
