By Larry Eliott, Dan Atkinson
ISBN-10: 1568586027
ISBN-13: 9781568586021
Two top monetary newshounds dissect this monetary elite, tracing their origins to a secretive amassing of free-market economists in 1947, and suggest a sequence of far-reaching reforms that may keep us from a brand new depression.
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Q: Five and six make? A: Eleven. — English children’s playground riddle As a cashier I was particularly inept because I could never get the tills to balance. —adam applegarth, chief executive of Northern Rock, quoted in The Independent on Sunday, September 16, 2007 Celebrating 20 years as a public company has give us the opportunity to reflect on our past success and focus on the drivers of a profitable future. —Bear Stearns annual report, 2006 T hey both had tough, no-nonsense names. They were both institutions that reveled in the idea that they were outsiders, run by people born on the wrong side of the tracks.
There was a sense that with perhaps just one more injection of cash from the Federal 30 t h e g o d s t h at fa i l e d Reserve, the Bank of England, and the European Central Bank, or one more private sector bailout lubricated with a sweetener from the taxpayer, it would be possible to restore confidence to the markets and reopen them for business on lines pretty much unchanged from before. For a time, the high priests seemed to be right. The bailout of the Bear was followed by a three-month spring rally in stock markets and a slight easing of the tension in money markets.
At least four factors lay behind what Krugman calls the great compression: stronger trade unions, sharply progressive taxation, controls on the free movement of capital, and managed trade. A fifth factor, immigration controls, also contributed to rising real incomes of blue-collar workers. From Riot to Market Renaissance: The Legacy of the Year of Living Dangerously At first free market ideas were confined to some well-funded think tanks and the fringes of academic economics. The attempt to revive eighteenth-century liberalism had limited appeal at a time when the New Deal, the welfare state, and other versions of the mixed economy were delivering unprecedented prosperity.
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