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Budget has a demand problem

For much of economic history, the idea that production would eventually generate its own demand rested on a set of strong assumptions: flexible prices, full employment, and a financial system that transmitted savings smoothly into investment.

Debt in distress

Most big defaulters are well-connected tycoons and have the money to employ legal eagles who can play the judicial system ~it is here the law flounders. India has some of the most draconian laws in books; they are ineffective against powerful dodgers. We keep producing new laws when the existing ones are adequate and just need more teeth to obtain results.

The financial tsunami ahead

The world is almost certain to witness a financial tsunami, warns financial analyst Ernst Wolff in his latest book, FinanzTsunami:…