Friday, October 10, 2008

Article in the FT calls for full nationalisation of the banks

Things do seem to be turning upside down! This article in the FT calls for a temporary full nationalisation of the banks to get out of the current spiral of lack of banking confidence.

I never thought I would see a writer in the FT call for such sweeping nationalisation (albeit he only wants it to be temporary). This is indeed an interesting time.

1 comments:

Dave Cole said...

It has been said, though, that the last reader of the FT's editorial died in 1992 when they saw the endorsement for Kinnock.

The FT is, of course, pro-market but it is pro-market without illusions. Unlike some of the evangelists on the neoliberal side, I think it's always recognised that a bonfire of all regulations is not bad and that there is an inherent, self-destructive tendency in the market or, rather, that there is a tension between capitalism and the free market.

xD.