
Ei korjaakaan, vaan herrankukkarossa hädän hetkellä apuun tulee aina valtio, se kapitalistien halveksima valtio-ohjaus, Soros sanoo.
”Every time the credit expansion ran into trouble the financial authorities intervened, injecting liquidity and finding other ways to stimulate the economy. That created a system of asymmetric incentives also known as moral hazard, which encouraged ever greater credit expansion. The system was so successful that people came to believe in what former US president Ronald Reagan called the magic of the marketplace and I call market fundamentalism. Fundamentalists believe that markets tend towards equilibrium and the common interest is best served by allowing participants to pursue their self-interest. It is an obvious misconception, because it was the intervention of the authorities that prevented financial markets from breaking down, not the markets themselves. Nevertheless, market fundamentalism emerged as the dominant ideology in the 1980s, when financial markets started to become globalised and the US started to run a current account deficit.”
On helppo yhtyä Soroksen arvioon, että tilannetta on pahentanut globalisaatio, joka on auttanut amerikkalaisia kuluttamaan yli varojensa muiden kustannuksella.
Lisäksi Soros moukaroi markkinafundamentalisteja: maailmantalous on 60-vuotisen noususuhdanteen lopullisella loppusuoralla. USA:n keskuspankki ei ehkä kauan enää pysty pelastamaan tilannetta. Muun muassa siksi, että muut maat eivät ole halukkaita lisäämään dollarivarantojaan.
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