Debt Delenda Est

``Central planners can make a recession appear to go away. With enough hot money, they might warm up asset prices or soothe the swelling unemployment rate. But debt doesn’t cooperate. Neither monetary policy nor fiscal policy will make it go away. Debt demands honesty. The debtor has to fess up, admitting that he is a fool or a knave. Either he owns up to his mistake and defaults…or he cheats... The authorities warn about the risk of “contagion.” They sweat to “calm” the markets. But why bother? Debt of this magnitude cannot be repaid. It has gone bad. At least give it a decent burial.''