[lbo-talk] (BN) Sweden Prime Minister Proving Tough Love of Banks a Model for Debt Crisis

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Thu Nov 10 06:18:01 PST 2011


On Nov 10, 2011, at 9:06 AM, Wojtek S wrote:


> RE: "becoming the longest serving conservative premier"
>
> [WS:] I cannot help but notice how far to the right this country is.
> Our liberal Democrats are to the right of Sweden's conservatives.
> Depressing.

E.g.:


>> “A good society does not have huge differences,” Reinfeldt said. “If you build trust among people, and I think you need that, then they shouldn’t get far apart from each other.”

It's hard to imagine just about anyone in public life here saying something like this.

Funny, though - their banks are in great shape and so is their budget.

Doug



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