The Austerity Pandemic

The Wrong Austerity Cure

Austerity has failed.

The effects of austerity

Portugal Crisis, Austerity and Protests

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Europe s Austerity Zombies

A reaction to austerity measures in Greece?

Are Greeks, Spaniards, Portuguese, and other Europeans really supposed to embrace an austerity program imposed on them because prevailing wisdom in Germany and other northern countries considers them profligate and lazy?

This will enable the ECB to put a lid on the borrowing costs of countries that submit to an austerity program under the supervision of the Troika (the IMF, the ECB, and the European Commission).

A Greek Burial for German Austerity

The Germans are in favor of austerity.

Instead, voters have been given another dose of pro business austerity.

Mass anti austerity protests are one warning sign.

Austerity the policy of saving your way out of a demand shortfall simply does not work.

Students of Genoa protest against austerity measures, on 14th November 2012.

But there are also critics of austerity on the German side.

Austerity and excessively high rents in energy kill that option.

Economic reform The coalition was influenced by the socialism of Prime Minister Gyula Horn, by the economic focus of its technocrats (who had been Western educated in the 1970s and 1980s) and ex cadre entrepreneur supporters, and by its liberal coalition partner the SZDSZ.

Yes, Europe needs structural reform, as austerity advocates insist.

But austerity is not working indeed, it is counterproductive.

That agreement, which is now the blueprint for Greece s relationship with the eurozone, perpetuates the five year long pattern of placing debt restructuring at the end of a sorry sequence of fiscal tightening, economic contraction, and program failure.

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A banner reads I don't fear austerity, I fear silence! .

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The poster reads Humans in Power . Photo from an anti austerity demonstration (March 2013) shared by Humans in Lisbon by Jsl Photography

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In the so called periphery, political upstarts promise citizens an alternative to austerity.

Their vote for Hollande was a vote against Sarkozy, not against austerity.

They must recognize that austerity will not help them to achieve their development goals.

Indeed, it will take a decade or more to recover the losses incurred in this austerity process.

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Europe s leaders will not surmount this crisis by pounding their citizens with bleak demands for austerity.

Some countries electorates initially backed austerity, but none has re authorized it.

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But, beyond this overwhelming opposition to austerity, countries experiences vary widely.

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Just adding liquidity, while continuing current austerity policies, will not reignite the Spanish economy.

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But no degree of austerity on its own will enable Europe s southern economies to get back on their feet.