[lbo-talk] it's over

Michael Smith mjs at smithbowen.net
Sun Mar 8 18:13:39 PDT 2009


On Sun, 8 Mar 2009 20:51:11 -0400 Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> quoted an interesting piece from one of the many Daily Diaries Of The Speculative Dream:


> Financial Times - March 8, 2009
> <http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/c6c5bd36-0c0c-11de-b87d-0000779fd2ac.html>


> “Governments bad; deregulated markets good”: how can this faith escape
> unscathed after Alan Greenspan, pupil of Ayn Rand and predominant
> central banker of the era, described himself, in congressional
> testimony last October, as being “in a state of shocked disbelief”
> over the failure of the “self-interest of lending institutions to
> protect shareholders’ equity”?

Isn't this what they do, every coupla generations or so? They have a pig-orgy at the trough, pass out, beshit the sty, then let the Gummint shovel the manure for a decade or two. Once things settle down, they wake up and start to feed again.

As the Twenties, then the Thirties, so now. Stay tuned: will 1939 recur, too?

Your guess is as good as mine. Better, probably.

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Michael Smith mjs at smithbowen.net http://stopmebeforeivoteagain.org



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