“Democracies can't handle austerity measures very well.” — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quote

“Democracies can't handle austerity measures very well.”

“You know, children philosophize more than adults - and they are critical of adults.”

“I hated school because I liked to daydream and the system tried to stop me from that.”

“Austerity and Brexit are two sides of the same coin, like the Brexit party and the Tories.”

“Since the crash of 2008 and during the neoliberal retrenchment known as austerity, many commentators have muttered that the left is dead, watching social democrats in their timidity lose elections and respond by becoming ever more timid and neoliberal. They deserve their defeats.”

“It is time to recognise that austerity alone condemns not just Greece but the whole of Europe to the probability of a painful and protracted era of little or no economic growth. This would be a tragedy not just for Greece and for Europe, but for the world.”