A Weakened U.S. Goes to the G-20

The American leaders are under the illusion that their Keynesian spending and easy money policies actually have worked, 10% unemployment notwithstanding.

It surely must have occurred to some Europeans that lectures on fiscal rectitude from the Americans display a modicum of hypocrisy. The German Bundestag is hearing the same sorts of voter complaints about bailouts that the American Congress is hearing. The concept of a huge debtor nation, the U.S., offering to help a bunch of smaller debtor nations solve their sovereign-debt problems seems a bit incongruous. But it doesn’t seem to trouble the Obama administration or the Democratic majority in Congress.

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“By reaching into virtually every sector of economic life, government is injecting uncertainty into the marketplace and making it harder to raise capital and create new businesses.”

– Ivan Seidenberg, CEO Verizon Communications, Inc.