The Global Financial Crisis and COVID... What Next?

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2 жыл бұрын

‘Hyper-globalisation’ and the power of finance culminated in the global financial crisis of 2008 that was potentially as severe as the Great Depression. The outcome was not public spending but austerity that hit the poor and Quantitative Easing that benefited the assets of the rich. The result was inequality and precarity, with barely any improvement in the standard of living for most by the time Covid hit. What signs are there of a much-needed transformation in attitudes to the economy?
A lecture by Martin Daunton
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@rphfito Жыл бұрын

I can't believe this only had less than 4,000 views. Then we wonder why things don't change.

@stivoarscott5831 Жыл бұрын

And finally ...greatly clarifying. The key issue of a new social contract is that just when the western labouring man would get justice, that justice will rule that his overlords should be brought to heel to the benefit of the emerging market worker and not to his. We should be told!

@khalidalali186 10 ай бұрын

Lol, touché. Ironically, the worker of the developing economies throughout the world, is also taught to despise you white people, by self hating whites benefiting from your taxes and from the very economic system they detest, on your behest.

@chrisjackson6605 2 жыл бұрын

Banking regulations were in fact meaningfully tightened post GFC. Including the Basel package, substantial liquidity regulations, net stable funding requirements, the TBTF reforms including TLAC and in the US the long term debt rules and all of the requirements of DFA. So the assertion of capture and lack of regulatory response is false. As you can see there were no large M&A transaction in the GSIB firms which underlines the disincentive to growing balance sheet substantially that arose from those reforms.

@sisyphusvasilias3943 2 жыл бұрын

Your neglecting to mention that ALL of these weak reactionary legislative acts have since been undermined and guttered by contradicty legislation.

@thomasboyd6093 2 жыл бұрын

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@chrisjackson6605 2 жыл бұрын

The argument you make is not unreasonable, and populism is certainly a child of globalisation and the policy response to the GFC. but the facts you use to make it are not all facts. The argument about financial regulations not being tightened materially is evidently false. It would be better to correct that mistake as it would make the argument more compelling