terça-feira, abril 02, 2013

Bom senso!

"Less than 5 percent of the $800 billion Obama stimulus went to the truly needy for food stamps, earned-income tax credits and other forms of poverty relief. The preponderant share ended up in money dumps to state and local governments, pork-barrel infrastructure projects, business tax loopholes and indiscriminate middle-class tax cuts. The Democratic Keynesians, as intellectually bankrupt as their Republican counterparts (though less hypocritical), had no solution beyond handing out borrowed money to consumers, hoping they would buy a lawn mower, a flat-screen TV or, at least, dinner at Red Lobster.
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 These policies have brought America to an end-stage metastasis. The way out would be so radical it can’t happen. It would necessitate a sweeping divorce of the state and the market economy. It would require a renunciation of crony capitalism and its first cousin: Keynesian economics in all its forms. The state would need to get out of the business of imperial hubris, economic uplift and social insurance and shift its focus to managing and financing an effective, affordable, means-tested safety net.
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All this would require drastic deflation of the realm of politics and the abolition of incumbency itself, because the machinery of the state and the machinery of re-election have become conterminous.
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The United States is broke — fiscally, morally, intellectually — and the Fed has incited a global currency war (Japan just signed up, the Brazilians and Chinese are angry, and the German-dominated euro zone is crumbling) that will soon overwhelm it. When the latest bubble pops, there will be nothing to stop the collapse. If this sounds like advice to get out of the markets and hide out in cash, it is."
Trechos retirados de "State-Wrecked: The Corruption of Capitalism in America"

3 comentários:

Carlos Albuquerque disse...

Marx anunciava o fim do capitalismo.

Interessante será saber o que vai acontecer primeiro: se a crise dos EUA aqui profetizada ou se uma nova crise financeira global, a partir dos grandes bancos e financeiras, como a de 2007-2008.

Refúgio em cash nestes cenários?

Carlos Albuquerque disse...

http://www.forbes.com/sites/stevedenning/2013/01/08/five-years-after-the-financial-meltdown-the-water-is-still-full-of-big-sharks/

Perante este lindo cenário é de bom senso retirar a segurança social do estado e entregá-la a estas fiáveis entidades? O dinheiro deposita-se neste sistema bancário?

Espantoso.

CCz disse...

Caro Carlos,

Estou a ser sincero consigo, não me estou a meter consigo, não estou a provocá-lo, é simplesmente o que penso: Bancos e governos são da mesma família, confio tanto nuns como nos outros.

São farinha do mesmo saco