You are too pessimistic, it's not that bad. It's for everybody's best interest to keep the current system going since there's no better alternative. So the governments around the world will work together to get over crisis like this.
-omega4(omega);
2008-9-17{216}(#4695353@0)
The current system is not quite fair and right, yes, but that's the way the world works. Just like it's not fair and right for my CEO to make my whole year's salary in 4 hours, but that's the way the world works.
If you call the current economic situation bad, you have no idea what a bad economy really is. In the early 90's, even a dishwasher job is hard to find. In the late 70's and early 80's, the inflation and mortgage rate is running at well over 15%.
-omega4(omega);
2008-9-17(#4695592@0)
Right, I believe Greenspan's low interest rates and his inaction while the asset bubbles being built up are the primary cause of the current crisis
-omega4(omega);
2008-9-17{549}(#4695581@0)
Blaming tax cuts for this crisis is unreasonable. Many of us don't like the rich. But the fact is that most of us still work for the rich and the corporations owned and managed by them. Killing the goose that is laying the golden eggs is never a good economic approach. In a globalized world, corporations can move investments and jobs to anywhere in the world that they find attractive to do business in. And the only things the government can do is reducing their tax burden, and invest in technology and workers to help the corporations compete.
The true problem is asset bubble enabled Bush to 1) spend a huge amount of money on wars, and 2) reduce tax to benefit the rich.
-tonytonytony(tony);
2008-9-17(#4697156@0)
The role of the banks can be sumarized in one sentence by Citi's former CEO: "as long as the music is on, you have to dance."
-tonytonytony(tony);
2008-9-17(#4696913@0)