Re: And we are off to an early start!
... still in the dumps in spite of Keynesianism, OH MY!
Good Rant, but, Nit to Pick: "They" never tried Keynesianism, The strategy of giving banks more money than God to inflate flaccid asset valuations does not crate Demand. Keynsianism would create demand via wage inflation and public spending.
What we actually have is Ordoliberlism, a very German thing: We have all politics and other fuctions of society being subsumed by "Markets" like in plain Neoliberalism, but, in Ordoliberalism those markets must also be rigged to provide "socially acceptable outcomes" -> making failed banksters more money than God and letting Wolkswagen off Diesel-gate. That kind of "acceptable".
It is thus no great wonder that the EU and democracy itself is failing to deliver agreeable outcomes for the majority. Now with the EU visibly falling apart, finally the clowns in charge realise that they cannot blame the EU for their own failures any longer, so, "Russian Spies Everywhere" comes out of the recycling bin.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
