I've heard it from several other places. What's surprising is its source.
On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 8:00 PM, Michael Perelman
<[email protected]> wrote:
> I found this in Businessweek. Is this knowledge common sense? Are people
> breaking through the fog of economics?
>
> For Greece, the price imposed by the EU and the International Monetary Fund
> for continued euro zone membership is a long walk over hot coals.deep
> budget cuts, steep tax hikes. "What the IMF is asking Greece to do borders
> on insanity. It's going to drive Greece into a deep recession and increase
> its debt-to-GDP ratio," says Desmond Lachman, a resident fellow of the
> conservative American Enterprise Institute in Washington.
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