http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/27/op…tale.html?_r=1
Death of a Fairy Tale
By PAUL KRUGMAN
Published: April 26, 2012
This was the month the confidence fairy died.
For the past two years most policy makers in Europe and many politicians and pundits in America have been in thrall to a destructive economic doctrine. According to this doctrine, governments should respond to a severely depressed economy not the way the textbooks say they should — by spending more to offset falling private [...]
