If we are lucky

A entrevista de Cavaco Silva ao semanário Expresso levanta-me algumas perplexidades.
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Uma delas é esta:
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"A questão fundamental é evitar a rarefacção do crédito às empresas e famílias."
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Nem uma palavra sobre a necessidade das famílias pouparem!
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"O maior problema de Portugal neste domínio é o do endividamento externo, que está a ser alimentado todos os anos pelo desequilíbrio das nossas contas externas que é muito elevado."
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Convido quem passar por estes postal a ler este artigo do The New York Times de ontem "Life After the Bubble: How Japan Lost a Decade":
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"By contrast, America is now, as it was then, the world’s biggest debtor nation. Just to make the United States government run we need to borrow $2 billion a day from increasingly nervous lenders overseas, including the Japanese.
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For the moment, it is in the best interest of America’s creditors to keep the spigot open, but when and if that changes, watch out. Some estimates have the federal deficit weighing in at over $750 billion next year.
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That’s not the biggest ever as a percentage of total economic output, but it’s up there; and it’s not clear how that number is going to get smaller any time soon.
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What’s more, whereas America has a negative savings rate and its citizens are neck-deep in debt, the Japanese have remained fanatical savers, frugal to a fault.
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That’s why when people ask me now if we are turning Japanese, I no longer tell them: “No Way!” Now I tell them: “If we are lucky.” "
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Também para reflectir o postal de Pedro Arroja no obrigatório Portugal Contemporâneo "Deflação"