Is Larry Summers The Next Gordon Brown?

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Written by Simon Johnson

May 11, 2009 at 6:04 am

Gordon Brown, the British Prime Minister, is in big trouble.  It turns out that a medium-sized industrialized democracy like the UK can be run in pretty much the same way as a traditional emerging market – fiscal irresponsibility (cyclically-adjusted general government deficit now forecast at 12.2 percent of GDP for 2010) gives you a boom for a while, but the eventual day of reckoning is economically painful and politically disastrous.  If you also need to deal with an oversized bubble finance sector, that makes the adjustment even more painful.

Is Larry Summers The Next Gordon Brown? « The Baseline Scenario

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