A Soros le preocupan más las consecuencias de las "misconceptions" y "misunderstansings" sobres los mercados. De hecho, como vimos hace poco, Krugman demuestra en su libro que fueron los errores de concepto lo que trajo la desregulación de los ochenta que abrió Las puertas a Las burbujas sucesivas que acabaron estallando. Soros invita a Merkel que deje de lado esas ideas erróneas sobre la virtud del ahorro, y tome medidas si no quiere causar la peor crisis de la historia. Quiero copiar aqui una se sus frases. Y si no, que lea el eclesiastés ya que es hija de cura o ellas misma cura: hay un riempo para cada xosa: uno para gastar y un tiempo para ahorrar.
The euro crisis is particularly instructive in this regard. It demonstrates the role of misconceptions and a lack of understanding in shaping the course of history. The authorities didn’t understand the nature of the euro crisis; they thought it is a fiscal problem while it is more of a banking problem and a problem of competitiveness. And they applied the wrong remedy: you cannot reduce the debt burden by shrinking the economy, only by growing your way out of it. The crisis is still growing because of a failure to understand the dynamics of social change; policy measures that could have worked at one point in time were no longer sufficient by the time they were applied.
But the euro also had some other defects of which the architects were unaware and which are not fully understood even today. In retrospect it is now clear that the main source of trouble is that the member states of the euro have surrendered to the European Central Bank their rights to create fiat money. They did not realize what that entails – and neither did the European authorities.
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