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Olivier Blanchard

@ojblanchard1

Robert Solow Professor of economics emeritus, MIT
Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics

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Let's be clear. The German "non paper" proposal for the reform of EU fiscal rules, requiring in particular a decline of 0.5% in the debt to GDP (1% for high debt countries) ratio each year would be catastrophic. It would lead to the worst form of pro-cyclical fiscal policy.