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The PIIGS Problem: Maginot Line Economics

…resistance to greater fiscal expansion as means of dealing with the problem of the “PIIGS“. The Problem: Germany’s fiscal deficit fetishism is largely a product of that country’s own hyperinflation…

A First World Problem

An archetypal first world problem is that we sites have (all?) decided to add two factor authentication (as the earlier first world problem of requiring irritating passwords with capital letters…