Thursday, June 6, 2013

Surprise!

The International Monetary Fund admitted it had failed to realise the damage austerity would do to Greece as the Washington-based organisation catalogued mistakes made during the bailout of the stricken eurozone country.

  UK Guardian
[N]ot even Greece could have turned into Greece without a lot of help from some international financial finagling.

  Charlie Pierce
The surprise is not that austerity measures have royally screwed the Greek economy, but that the IMF admitted as much.

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