Merkel og Sarkozy anklager "kapitalisterne" for den græske finanskatastrofe. Men hvordan gik det til, at Sydeuropas politikere - ikke kun Grækenlands - overhovedet kunne kaste sig ud i det gigantiske pyramidespil? City Journal bringer en relevant artikel med en beskrivelse og en analyse, fanatikere som Per Nyholm og Marlene Wind aldrig nogensinde vil kommentere:
http://www.city-journal.org/2012/22_1_free-market.html
Farewell to the Free Market?
Western governments have compounded the economic crisis by rejecting the one force that can end it.
In the years leading up to 2007, the rules necessary to govern a flourishing market economy broke down, producing a financial and economic crisis. Rather than responding to the crisis by fixing those rules, the West aggressively repudiated market economics, and the repudiation continues to this day.
..... the euro, whatever efficiencies it achieved, introduced a deep corruption into the world’s capital markets. Investors understood that the euro’s architects saw it as a way to forge a grand postnational European Union. These investors, as they bought bonds from individual European nations, assumed that the euro’s sturdiest economies and most ardent champions —above all, Germany and France— would never let a weaker eurozone country default on its obligations, for fear of derailing the political union of Europe. This belief enabled such countries as Greece, Ireland, Italy, Portugal, and Spain —as well as their nominally private-sector banks— to borrow too much money too cheaply.
