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Maybe everyone was expecting Russia to roll into Crimea shooting and waving the Russian flag. They didn't expect them to sneak in and disable the Ukrainian troops stationed there in their sleep, so to speak. A society committed to the notion that government is always bad will have bad government. And it doesn't have to be that way. — Paul Krugman
Most of the demonstrators probably didn't want to be governed by one of those shape shifting lizard central bankers.
Finally they pooled incompatible economic interests.
nothing stopping you having aims incompatible with reality.
They make reality, remember!
Wishful thinking'Confidence in the market' hushes all opposition.
Because growth. 'The history of public debt is full of irony. It rarely follows our ideas of order and justice.' Thomas Piketty
He was the last surviving signatory of the Maastricht Treaty, and the last member of the European Council who was genuinely in favour of the "community method". And yet... A society committed to the notion that government is always bad will have bad government. And it doesn't have to be that way. — Paul Krugman
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