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22 June 2012

"Austrijska" odbrana evra

Veoma važan članak Jesus Huerta de Sotoa pod nazivom "Austrijska odbrana evra".

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Moreover, the arrival of the Great Recession of 2008 has even further revealed to everyone the disciplinary nature of the euro: for the first time, the countries of the monetary union have had to face a deep economic recession without monetary-policy autonomy. Up until the adoption of the euro, when a crisis hit, governments and central banks invariably acted in the same way: they injected all the necessary liquidity, allowed the local currency to float downward and depreciated it, and indefinitely postponed the painful structural reforms that where needed and that involve economic liberalization, deregulation, increased flexibility in prices and markets (especially the labor market), a reduction in public spending, and the withdrawal and dismantling of union power and the welfare state. With the euro, despite all the errors, weaknesses, and concessions we will discuss later, this type of irresponsible behavior and forward escape has no longer been possible.

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Hence, to a certain extent it is amusing (and also pathetic) to note that the legion of social engineers and interventionist politicians who, led at the time by Jacques Delors, designed the single currency as one more tool for use in their grandiose projects to achieve a European political union, now regard with despair something they never seem to have been able to predict: that the euro has ended up acting de facto as the gold standard, disciplining citizens, politicians, and authorities, tying the hands of demagogues and exposing pressure groups (headed by the unfailingly privileged unions), and even questioning the sustainability and the very foundations of the welfare state.

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Manje-više poznat je eksperiment kojim je dokazano da svaka besmislica koja se ponovi dovoljno puta može postati istina - reč je o prosečnom spavaću koji svake noći smaže ponekog pauka. Drastični slučajevi besomučnog ponavljanja besmilica su poznati. Mene izuzetno nervira (ma jak izraz, onako mi ide na živce) besmilica koju su u etar pustili novinari lišeni znanja o redovima veličina i načinu na koji funkcionioše država, a koju kao papagaji ponavljaju i relativno ozbiljni ljudi. Tako danas reče Goati da "je Srbija u veoma teškoj situaciji, da svakoga dana gubi 50 miliona evra zbog neformiranja vlade i da toga izgleda nisu svesni samo političari, koji, kako smatra, pokazuju neprimereno malu spremnost na kompromis."
Tačno je da je Srbija u teškoj situaciji, nije tačno da naši političari nemaju smisla za kompromis, imaju ga itekako, a potpuno je netačno da gubimo 50 miliona evra svakog dana. To je ako se prevede u naše pare na godišnjem nivou malo manje od 17 milijardi evra. Da imamo u izgledu neku vladu koju bi vodili ljudi kao što su bili Regan. Tačerka ili Pinoče, pa da i kažem da ima istine, ovako ne gubimo mi ništa posebno, ne bi me iznenadilo i da smo na čistom dobitku.