{"id":193485,"date":"2008-12-12T00:25:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-12T05:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/12\/12\/once-again-the-germans-are-a-menace-to-the-civilized-world\/"},"modified":"2008-12-12T00:25:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-12T05:25:00","slug":"once-again-the-germans-are-a-menace-to-the-civilized-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/12\/12\/once-again-the-germans-are-a-menace-to-the-civilized-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Once Again, the Germans Are a Menace to the Civilized World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know, Godwin&#8217;s law, but I completely with <a href=\"http:\/\/krugman.blogs.nytimes.com\/2008\/12\/11\/the-economic-consequences-of-herr-steinbrueck\/\">Paul Krugman calling out the Germans on economic policy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Specifically, he calls out  Peer Steinbrueck, the Germany finance minister, who suggests that spending programs are &#8220;Crass Keynesianism&#8221;, and indirectly he calls out Angela Merkel, who is strongly resisting spending to stimulate the economy, and is instead keeping, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.iht.com\/articles\/2008\/12\/10\/europe\/letter.php\">her trump card  &#8211;  tax cuts  &#8211;  in reserve<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So in the middle of the biggest financial crisis since the Great Depression, Merkel and Steinbrueck are advocating Hoovernomics.<\/p>\n<p>I understand the hyperinflation of the 1920s and how it shaped German thought, but this is insane.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know, Godwin&#8217;s law, but I completely with Paul Krugman calling out the Germans on economic policy. Specifically, he calls out Peer Steinbrueck, the Germany finance minister, who suggests that spending programs are &#8220;Crass Keynesianism&#8221;, and indirectly he calls out Angela Merkel, who is strongly resisting spending to stimulate the economy, and is instead keeping, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[973,984,1003],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-europe","category-philosophy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193485"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}