• vovchik_ilich [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    1 day ago

    austerity is important. debts always have to be paid back

    The European Central Bank can literally create at a keystroke the Euros that most European countries are indebted in. EU countries incurring in debt is a consequence of the arbitrary 3% deficit limit imposed during the previous century, which was decided in a 5-h meeting by a set of politicians who didn’t understand economics, based on a study that has since been disproven (there were errors in the excel sheets used for the calculations of the article). Austerity is consistently harmful and monetarily unnecessary, especially when denominated in the country’s own currency (as is the case of most developed countries).