"Of Two Minds Blog" with Charles Hugh Smith of www.oftwominds.com
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"Currency Wars" with John Rubino of DollarCollapse.com
A three part interview series starting Thur, May 19th with OUTLOOK for the US$, Thur, May 26th with GEO-POLITICS OF THE US$ as the Global Reserve Currency and ALTERNATIVE STORES OF VALUE - Hard Assets on June 2nd. >> Go to Global Insights FOCUS-June and May
NOTE: The IMF economists, Jaime Guajardo, Daniel Leigh and Andrea Pescatori, have shown in their recent paper "Expansionary Austerity, New International Evidence", that a fiscal consolidation of 1 percent of GDP has on average reduced real private consumption by 0.75% within 2 years and a fall in real GDP by 0.62%. I MIS-SPOKE when I said it approximates 70%, instead of saying 0.7 (0.62%). In actual fact, with EU GDP's now approximating 1% before austeriry measures kick in, the 70% cited is correct but not in the context of the IMF data results..
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