Martin Wolf: There Will Be Another “Huge” Financial Crisis

Friday, June 3, 2016
By Paul Martin

by GoldCore
ZeroHedge.com
6/3/2016

Martin Wolf writing in the Financial Times has warned that there will be another “huge” financial crisis given the nature of the modern fractional reserve banking and financial system.

Wolf asks whether there will a “another huge financial crisis” and then answers his question by saying that there will be and warns that banks “are designed to fall. So fall they surely will.”

He warns that a system built on making promises it cannot keep is bound to crash, and crash again:

Will there be another huge financial crisis? As Hamlet said of the fall of a sparrow: “If it be now, ’tis not to come. If it be not to come, it will be now. If it be not now, yet it will come – the readiness is all.” So it is with banks. They are designed to fall. So fall they surely will.
A recent book explores not only this reality but also a radical and original solution. What makes attention to this suggestion even more justified is that its author was at the heart of the monetary establishment before and during the crisis. He is Lord Mervyn King, former governor of the Bank of England. His book is called The End of Alchemy.

The title is appropriate: alchemy lies at the heart of the financial system; moreover, banking was, like alchemy, a medieval idea, but one we have not as yet discarded. We must, argues Lord King, now do so.
As Lord King remarks, the alchemy is “the belief that money kept in banks can be taken out whenever depositors ask for it”.
This is a confidence trick in two senses: it works if, and only if, confidence is strong; and it is fraudulent. Financial institutions make promises that, in likely states of the world, they cannot keep. In good times, this is a lucrative business. In bad times, the authorities have to come to the rescue. It is little wonder, then, that financial institutions have become so large and pay so well.

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