Guest Post: The Final Countdown
Alasdair Macleod
ZeroHedge.com
02/19/2013
Governments have refused to accept the necessity of a period of economic re-adjustment following the credit-bubble. The bubble burst about five years ago and economic progress has been effectively suspended ever since. Reduced to its bare bones, the choice has been either to accept that unviable businesses and over-extended banks must go bust, or to ignore the problem and hope it goes away. This is a decision for markets, not governments, which brings us back to the necessity for economic re-adjustment. Governments have simply not faced up to the reality that we are in a post-credit-bubble mess: they still hope the problem will be resolved by time. We are long past the point of no return. Governments are now reduced to screwing their electorates for their own survival, which is their last refuge from reality.
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