March 8, 2016

Paul Craig Roberts - The Financial System Is A Larger Threat Than Terrorism

An excerpt from, "The Financial System Is A Larger Threat Than Terrorism" by Paul Craig Roberts, March 8, 2016:
Throughout the Western world the financial system has become an exploiter of the people and a deadweight loss on economies. There are only two possible solutions. One is to break the large banks up into smaller and local entities such as existed prior to the concentration that deregulation fostered. The other is to nationalize them and operate them solely in the interest of the general welfare of the population.

The banks are too powerful currently for either solution to occur. But the greed, fraud, and self-serving behavior of Western financial systems, aided and abeted by governments, could be leading to such a breakdown of economic life that the idea of a private financial system will become as abhorent in the future as Nazism is today.