"<a href=""https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJQepiqSWvg&amp;t=44m15s"">44:15</a> It's just untrue that austerity has led to worse economic outcomes than Keynesian "stimulus" policies after the 2007 crash.<br>The only reason you can claim that with a straight face in sight of any comparative data is because countries that were badly prepared", with the worst deficits and most stifling economic/labor policies were the ones forced by circumstance to change the most, to adopt more reasonable (austere) policies.<br><br><br>That is like blaming water for the hungover. We have drunk, zombie economies led by cultish BS artists.