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1. Introduction. Imagine a world with ‘Money as a thing
of the past’. With the clock wound back all of 70 years
so there are only a few computers again.
The current worldwide recession (I share the increasing views
of many commentators that it is a Second Great Depression
that may last years if unchecked by a world government
initiative) started life as the tritely and glibly misnamed ‘credit
crunch’ back in September 2007. Banks stopped giving out
vast amounts of cheap credit – around that time the long term
bubble in massive and escalating property prices on both sides
of the Atlantic, also burst.
Since then world stock markets have collapsed in a series of
drastic falls, notably in September 2008, a year after the start
of this ‘credit crunch’ cum Second Great Depression. Now the
world and its leaders are both apportioning blame as ever,
often quite wildly, and grasping onto straws to find ways to get
the apple cart of the world economy upright and working again.
Was it all greedy bankers’ fault – or was it greedy
homeowners? They ask.
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