Buddy: can you spare me 11,000,000,000,000 dimes?
What the G20 leaders in London this week agreed to beg, steal or borrow to tackle the global financial crisis and to rescue the world economy. That's the impossible-to-grasp number that tells us how much it will take, they decided, in genuine Roosevelt New Deal dimes (mainly for the IMF and not including the other trillions already committed by national governments to bail out banks and auto companies, among others, and to support unemployed people). All this - and more, not to mention our collective wealth foregone - is pursuit of the items highlighted in the backdrop to the G20 leaders' group photo (the one the Canadian PM missed because he went to the loo):
STABILITY | GROWTH | JOBS
Want that dime inflated? View this dime - and my begging fingers - Large On Black
#192 on Explore, April 21, 2009
Buddy: can you spare me 11,000,000,000,000 dimes?
What the G20 leaders in London this week agreed to beg, steal or borrow to tackle the global financial crisis and to rescue the world economy. That's the impossible-to-grasp number that tells us how much it will take, they decided, in genuine Roosevelt New Deal dimes (mainly for the IMF and not including the other trillions already committed by national governments to bail out banks and auto companies, among others, and to support unemployed people). All this - and more, not to mention our collective wealth foregone - is pursuit of the items highlighted in the backdrop to the G20 leaders' group photo (the one the Canadian PM missed because he went to the loo):
STABILITY | GROWTH | JOBS
Want that dime inflated? View this dime - and my begging fingers - Large On Black
#192 on Explore, April 21, 2009