Friday, November 25, 2011

Feel That Burn? Good, Say Aerobic Leaders Obama, Merkel

by Jonathan Cheng

Wall Street Journal

November 25, 2011

Are you, dear investor, sick and tired of global markets being driven by sovereign-debt issues in Italy, Greece, Spain, France and the U.S.? Would you give anything to have markets return to a placid time when correlations were low, stock-picking mattered and parliamentary showdowns in Bratislava didn’t so much?

No! say Merkel and Obama.

Like two aerobic instructors heck-bent on whipping government spending into shape (at least rhetorically), the German Chancellor and the U.S. President have a simple message for recalcitrant lawmakers and those squealing in the market squealing for mercy: no pain, no gain.

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