..............When inflation is still high, the government should curtail its deficits, but Chidambaram has been pressuring the Reserve Bank to cut rates to revive growth. Instead of taking the bitter medicine of cutting non-productive expenditures which will create space for a rate cut, he has been pressuring the RBI to cut rates anyway. Who wants difficult decisions, when easy ones are at hand? Rate cuts are just sugary placebos, and Chidambaram is happy to have that instead of the bitter pill he has been tomtomming.......
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