That's certainly part of the problem, but I fear that the original mantra considered that even that would eventually come out in the wash.

Colman:

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