dimelab dimelab: shrinking the gap between talk and action.

Chicago School Topic in The Credit Debacle Catalog

Chicago School Economic (1).

The Money Game Wed 2010-06-09 18:11 EDT

How Deficit Hawks Will Keep Cutting Spending Until We're All On Food Stamps

...Sovereign debt is not a problem as long as the nation's debt contracts is denominated in the nation's currency -- and the nation has control over its own currency (in contrast to the euro zone). The Greek problem is the equivalent of the California problem, where California does not print its own currency...Apparently, we do not yet have the guts to shift from the neo-classical orthodoxy. Chicago school economics is still too much our religion. It persists until we all go on food stamps. The country that detests ideology is too ideological to manage any kind of serious change prior to crisis. As a result, a new crisis is almost certain to come, which will force the change that our elites still refuse to contemplate.

deficit hawk; food stamps; Keep Cutting Spending; Money game.

Thu 2007-09-13 00:00 EDT

The shock doctrine | Business | Guardian Unlimited Business

The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, by Naomi Klein (edited excerpt; Guardian Unlimited); Milton Friedman; Chicago school; market fundamentalism; exploiting disaster to obtain market reform

business; Guardian Unlimited Business; Shock Doctrine.