• The IMF finally admits that government austerity depressed our economy | Liberal Conspiracy

  The IMF now accepts that for every £1 cut from government spending, the reduction of economic activity as a whole is potentially as much as £1.70 – far higher than the £1:£1 ratio the IMF’s original predictions were based on, and of course in completely the opposite direction that British Government policy is based on: that cuts in Government spending will be more than replaced by increased private sector expenditure (based on the so-called ‘crowding-out hypothesis’.)

  tags: austerity economy

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