Simon Wren-Lewis — Optimism or Pessimism on the EuroZone Crisis?

This suggests that the key problem for the Eurozone is similar to that faced by the US, the UK and others. Too much austerity in the short term is holding back or even killing the recovery from the last recession, because monetary policy has lost its power in a liquidity trap. In these other countries this excessive austerity will ‘only’ result in significantly higher unemployment for many years to come. In the Eurozone the consequences could be more dramatic.   

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Optimism or Pessimism on the EuroZone Crisis?

by Simon Wren-Lewis

Yep.