{"id":26026,"date":"2024-04-23T17:12:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-23T15:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michelsanti.fr\/?p=26026"},"modified":"2024-04-23T17:12:02","modified_gmt":"2024-04-23T15:12:02","slug":"no-need-for-electric-shocks-to-reduce-public-debt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michelsanti.fr\/en\/neoliberalism\/no-need-for-electric-shocks-to-reduce-public-debt","title":{"rendered":"No need for electric shocks to reduce public debt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"26023\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/michelsanti.fr\/en\/neoliberalism\/no-need-for-electric-shocks-to-reduce-public-debt\/attachment\/dette-2-2\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/michelsanti.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/dette.jpg?fit=1900%2C1174&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1900,1174\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"dette\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/michelsanti.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/dette.jpg?fit=1024%2C633&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/michelsanti.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/dette.jpg?resize=1170%2C723&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1170\" height=\"723\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-26023\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/michelsanti.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/dette.jpg?w=1900&amp;ssl=1 1900w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/michelsanti.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/dette.jpg?resize=300%2C185&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/michelsanti.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/dette.jpg?resize=1024%2C633&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/michelsanti.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/dette.jpg?resize=768%2C475&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/michelsanti.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/dette.jpg?resize=1536%2C949&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/michelsanti.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/dette.jpg?resize=1200%2C741&amp;ssl=1 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1170px) 100vw, 1170px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>See for yourself the impressive improvement in the Debt\/GDP ratio of Greece and Portugal! <\/p>\n<p>Yes, inflation works very well to lighten the burden of public debts, provided we fix the duration of our loans and do not issue inflation-indexed debt. <\/p>\n<p>The deprivations inflicted on our populations are much more a matter of punitive intent than of macroeconomic justification.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>See for yourself the impressive improvement in the Debt\/GDP ratio of Greece and Portugal! 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Inequality has often been described by the upper class as an inevitable side effect, systemic almost, of the prosperity and innovation that\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;capitalism&quot;","block_context":{"text":"capitalism","link":"https:\/\/michelsanti.fr\/en\/category\/capitalism"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/michelsanti.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/christ_chassant_marchand_temple_.jpg?fit=783%2C600&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/michelsanti.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/christ_chassant_marchand_temple_.jpg?fit=783%2C600&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/michelsanti.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/christ_chassant_marchand_temple_.jpg?fit=783%2C600&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/michelsanti.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/christ_chassant_marchand_temple_.jpg?fit=783%2C600&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":19340,"url":"https:\/\/michelsanti.fr\/en\/money\/debt-money-sin","url_meta":{"origin":26026,"position":4},"title":"Debt, money, sin","author":"Michel Santi","date":"March 20, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"\u00a0 The word for \u2018debt\u2019 in German \u2013 to owe money \u2013 is \u2018Schuld\u2019, and it also means \u2018sin\u2019 in this language. This dual meaning also existed in Akkadian in Babylon. 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Five of them were immediately followed by depressions. 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