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Is the taxpayer-financed bailout the only way out?

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Everyone is anxious about foreclosure of a million homes, and concerned about jobs & savings

The simultaneous unfolding of the US presidential campaign & unravelling of financial markets presents one of those occasions where political & economic systems starkly reveal their nature. The initial Bush proposals to deal with the crisis so reeked of totalitarianism that they were quickly modified. The immediate origins of the current meltdown lie in the collapse of the housing bubble supervised by Federal Reserve Chairman, Alan Greenspan.

But the roots are deeper. In part they lie in the triumph of financial liberalisation in the past 30 years. These steps increased the frequency and depth of severe reversals, which now threaten to bring about the worst crisis since the Great Depression. Also predictably, the narrow sectors that reaped enormous profits from liberalisation are calling for massive state intervention to rescue collapsing financial institutions.

Such interventionism is a regular feature of state capitalism, though the scale today is unusual. In a functioning democratic society, a political campaign would address such fundamental issues, looking into root causes and cures, and proposing the means by which people suffering the consequences can take effective control.

Ignoring systemic risk leads to more risk-taking than would take place in an efficient economy, even by the narrowest measures. The task of financial institutions is to take risks, to ensure that potential losses to themselves will be covered. Financial liberalisation has effects well beyond the economy. It has long been understood that it is a powerful weapon against democracy. Free capital movement creates what some have called a “virtual parliament” of investors and lenders, who closely monitor government programmes and “vote” against them if they are considered irrational: for the benefit of people, rather than concentrated private power.

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An Initiative of IIPM, Malay Chaudhuri and Arindam Chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist).


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