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Falling short

Economist's View found this 10/12/2008 on krugman.blogs.nytimes.com

Wouldn't it be nice if, just once, policy makers exceeded expectations instead of falling short? Actually, it would be more than nice: until that starts happening, policy will keep losing credibility. But it's apparently not to be. The IMF ministers have endorsed the G7 plan - but there isn't ...