Economic risks so profound government’s again back in game

Now, politicians of all political colours must prove they are willing and able to play well, without partisan fear or favour, in the national interest. It's the single positive in this calamity's negatives.

OTTAWA-John Maynard Keynes, the long-dead English economist whose thinking on hard times and deficit spending is now alive again everywhere, grasped the dark humour underlying the current financial horror. "If you owe your bank a hundred pounds, you have a problem," he famously noted. "But if you...

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