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13 January 2012

Pismo Stiglitzu

Nekako sam naleteo na pismo Kena Rogoffa Josephu Stiglitzu od pre 10 godina, a koje i dalje stoji na sajtu MMF-a. Obavezno pročitati. Između ostalog:


Let's look at Stiglitzian prescriptions for helping a distressed emerging market debtor, the ideas you put forth as superior to existing practice. Governments typically come to the IMF for financial assistance when they are having trouble finding buyers for their debt and when the value of their money is falling. The Stiglitzian prescription is to raise the profile of fiscal deficits, that is, to issue more debt and to print more money. You seem to believe that if a distressed government issues more currency, its citizens will suddenly think it more valuable. You seem to believe that when investors are no longer willing to hold a government's debt, all that needs to be done is to increase the supply and it will sell like hot cakes. We at the IMF—no, make that we on the Planet Earth—have considerable experience suggesting otherwise. We earthlings have found that when a country in fiscal distress tries to escape by printing more money, inflation rises, often uncontrollably. Uncontrolled inflation strangles growth, hurting the entire populace but, especially the indigent. The laws of economics may be different in your part of the gamma quadrant, but around here we find that when an almost bankrupt government fails to credibly constrain the time profile of its fiscal deficits, things generally get worse instead of better.

Toma promoviše KONEPS, Tadić kaže da imamo nepotrebne zakone

Tomislav Nikolić kaže u intervjuu:


U Južnoj Koreji kompjuter izbacuje tenderske uslove i određuje pobednika. Zašto to ne bi moglo kod nas?


Očigledno govori o KONEPS-u, sistemu o kojem sam pisao pre izvesnog vremena. Moj problem sa naprednjacima je u tome što ni ovde on nije rekao "Kada ja pobedim, obećavam da ćemo u roku od godinu dana uvesti sistem poput onog u Južnoj Koreji". Ovako, čak nije ni obećao, samo je postavio retoričko pitanje.


Uzgred, Tadić je pre neki dan imao relativno dobar intervju u kojem je, između ostalog, rekao i:


Postoji čitav niz zakona i agencija koje su potpuno nepotrebne.


Pitanje je - ako zna da "postoji čitav niz zakona i agencija koje su potpuno nepotrebne", zašto nešto ne uradi po tom pitanju? Da li tvrdi da su za sve te zakone i agenciji krivi koalicioni partneri?