The FT has reported that:

The intensifying credit crunch is so severe that lower interest rates alone will not be enough "to get out of the turmoil we are in", Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the managing director of the International Monetary Fund, warned at the weekend.

In a dramatic volte face for an international body that as recently as the autumn called for "continued fiscal consolidation" in the US, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the new IMF head, gave a green light for the proposed US fiscal stimulus package and called for other countries to follow suit. "I don't think we would get rid of the crisis with just monetary tools," he said, adding "a new fiscal policy is probably today an accurate way to answer the crisis".

Roll out a crisis: bring back Keynes. Some of us, of course, never went away.

Now it's time for a New Deal. Some of us would say it's time for a Green New Deal.