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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"Capitalism Eating Its Children"
Capitalism Eating Its Childrenby Roger Cohen at the NY Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/30/opinion/cohen-capitalism-eating-its-children.html?emc=edit_ty_20140529&nl=opinion&nlid=10210946&_r=1
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Or so one would think, until Mark Carney, the Canadian governor of the Bank of England, lays into unfettered capitalism. Just as any revolution eats its children, he says, unchecked market fundamentalism can devour the social capital essential for the long-term dynamism of capitalism itself.
All ideologies, he continues, are prone to extremes. Belief in the power of the market entered the realm of faith before the 2008 meltdown. Market economies became market societies. They were characterized by light-touch regulation and the belief that bubbles cannot be identified.
Carney pulls no punches. Big banks were too big to fail, operating in a heads-I-win-tails-you-lose bubble. Benchmarks were rigged for personal gain. Equity markets blatantly favored the technologically empowered over the retail investor. Mistrust grew and persists.
Prosperity requires not just investment in economic capital, but investment in social capital, Carney argues, having defined social capital as the links, shared values and beliefs in a society which encourage individuals not only to take responsibility for themselves and their families but also to trust each other and work collaboratively to support each other.
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Above all, understand that, The answers start from recognizing that financial capitalism is not an end in itself, but a means to promote investment, innovation, growth and prosperity. Banking is fundamentally about intermediation connecting borrowers and savers in the real economy. In the run-up to the crisis, banking became about banks not businesses; transactions not relations; counterparties not clients.
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"Capitalism Eating Its Children" (Original Post)
applegrove
May 2014
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Demeter
(85,373 posts)1. Blather, Obfuscation and BS
Revolutions do not eat THEIR children, but they MIGHT eat YOURS!
What he is describing is not capitalism, small c, but looting and pillaging aka Kapitalism, capital K, an ideology on steroids, unchecked by any human regard.
Banking as practiced by the TBTF is not about Intermediation....it's about raping the customer.
TBF
(32,064 posts)2. By it's very definition capitalism cannot
be inclusive. It is an economic system in which the goal is profit by any means.
Interesting to watch the kings of industry and their protectors try to twist around words in order to save their oppressive system.
No thank you, Mr. Cohen.