Farewell to Oskar

[Max Sawicky]

> Senior U.S. policymakers viewed Lafontaine as a useful
counterweight to the deflationists in Europe. For six years, now,
U.S. policymakers like
Lawrence Summers have been lecturing European finance ministers
and central
bankers on the desirability of demand expansion in Europe--and
Oskar Lafontaine is one of the few European politicians who
openly agrees with
the U.S.>

So if we were getting our tax dollars' worth from the CIA, it
would be working to depose the European economic stagnationists
and promote fiscally-stimulative social democracy.

mbs