Monday, March 28, 2011

Maestro Nurtures a New Too-Big-to Fail Crisis: Simon Johnson

Bloomberg Opinion

Just tell the government to back off and all will be fine.

That’s what former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan seems to say in “Activism,” an article published in the Spring issue of International Finance available on the Council on Foreign Relationswebsite.

“Current government activism is hampering what should be a broad-based robust economic recovery,” he writes.

If we follow his advice this time, and if his line of reasoning prevails in the 2012 presidential election, we’ll stumble again into another boom-bust-bailout crisis.

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