Finance minister pushes power of the positive
(NEWSER) - Australia's finance minister apparently didn't see what happened to Phil Gramm last summer when he declared that the US economic slowdown was "mental" and called Americans a "nation of whiners." The recession would disappear, said Ken Henry, if Australians would just buck up, Australia’s News Network reports. “Fundamentally what is driving weaker economic outcomes globally at the moment is fractured confidence,” Ken Henry said. “We can talk ourselves into worse outcomes; of course we can. People do; it wouldn’t be the first time.” More»