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Crewleader

(17,005 posts)
Tue Nov 25, 2014, 07:08 AM Nov 2014

Nothing Has Changed--and That's the Problem



by charles hugh smith

Nothing Has Changed--and That's the Problem (November 25, 2014)


Playing monetary games has done nothing to eliminate moral hazard.


If we step back and look at the past six years since the global financial meltdown of 2008, we see that in terms of financial and political power, nothing has changed--and that's the problem. If nothing has changed structurally, then none of the problems that caused the meltdown have truly been addressed.

All that's changed is the vast expansion of monetary games has masked the dysfunctional reality that the same old vested interests that had a death-grip on wealth and power in 2008 have tightened their death-grip in the past six years.

Here's the problem facing every nation and trading bloc:

http://www.oftwominds.com/blognov14/nothings-changed11-14.html




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Nothing Has Changed--and That's the Problem (Original Post) Crewleader Nov 2014 OP
The Oligarchs, Corporations And Banks Own And Control The Politicians That Own And Control Us cantbeserious Nov 2014 #1

cantbeserious

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1. The Oligarchs, Corporations And Banks Own And Control The Politicians That Own And Control Us
Tue Nov 25, 2014, 08:23 AM
Nov 2014

Nothing will change until that dynamic changes.

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