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FT.com / Columnists / Martin Wolf - Choices made in 2009 will shape the globe’s destiny
ft.com - 1/7/2009
FT.com / Columnists / Martin Wolf - Choices made in 2009 will shape the globe’s destiny
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Published: January 6 2009 19:27 | Last updated: January 6 2009 19:27 Ingram Pinn illustration EDITOR’S CHOICE Economists’ forum - Oct-01 Every week, 50 of the world’s most influential economists discuss Martin Wolf’s articles on FT.com You have viewed your allowance of free articles. If you ...
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Martin Wolf Puts It Better than Anyone Else I Have Seen
— delong.typepad.com — Martin Wolf on our current magneto trouble: FT.com / Columnists / Martin Wolf - Keynes offers us... the best way to think about the financial crisis : We are all Keynesians now. When Barack Obama takes office he will propose a gigantic fiscal ... (more) Martin Wolf Puts It Better than Anyone Else I Have Seen

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Big Trouble
Weekly Standard Blog — ... , has a thought-provoking and extremely worrying column in the Financial Times. Everyone should read it. Here's the basic argument: ...

Borrowing is borrowing
SCSUScholars — ... may as well say the lockbox on Social Security was spent on TARP; the Social Security fund is being stocked with Treasury bonds anyway at this point. What actually will pay for the funds to be given to households as grants -- Ed's right here, too: The money isn't a tax rebate, since there are no taxes paid by many of its recipients -- will be additional borrowings from whomever we can borrow from. That's most likely going to be international countries such as BRIC -- Martin Wolf concludes as much yesterday -- though Russia's part of that will be small for the ...

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