Austerity
5/18/2012 1:53 PM ET
Jim Cramer and other media analysts predicted default wouldn’t be necessary thanks to government bailouts.
12/6/2011 3:04 PM ET
No room for optimism for reporter Liz Alderman in Ireland: "But the effects of austerity have pummeled Ireland's fragile economy, leaving scars that are likely to take years to heal. Nearly 40,000 ...
11/16/2011 3:04 PM ET
"...Germany has floated above the fray. While its economy has hummed along nicely, its leaders have steadfastly insisted that the path to redemption for the debtors lies in austerity and ...
11/14/2011 2:48 PM ET
Alan Cowell: "As the riots in London and elsewhere in August seemed to show, the profound gulf between haves and have-nots has been magnified by the inequalities and envies of a society that has ...
1/28/2011 11:11 PM ET
The government will not put itself on austerity, only the people can force it to.
6/30/2010 11:25 AM ET
The paper's neo-liberal economic conscience found criticism of massive government spending by laissez-faire economists [and] Congressional Republicans, distressing, lamenting: They're able to ...
6/29/2010 1:47 PM ET
Liz Alderman wonders why Europe won't listen to Obama's wisdom: "The Group of 20 leaders [are] vowing to make deficit reduction the top priority despite warnings from President Obama that too much ...
2/1/2010 2:02 PM ET
No wonder it's so hard to cut federal spending: A limited "spending freeze" of $250 billion over three years, out of a 2001 budget of $3.8 trillion, is twice trotted out as a radical "austerity" ...
