Financial Markets Need To Become Less, Not

Rich Countries Have 'kicked Away The Ladder' By Forcing Free-market, Free-trade Policies On Poor Countries. Already Established Countries Do Not Want More Competitors Emerging Through The Nationalistic Policies They Themselves Successfully Used In The Past.

95 Percent Of Economics Is Common Sense Made Complicated, And Even For The Remaining 5 Percent, The Essential Reasoning, If Not All The Technical Details, Can Be Explained In Plain Terms.

If We Are Really Serious About Preventing Another Crisis Like The 2008 Meltdown We Should Simply Ban Complex Financial Instruments, Unless They Can Be Unambiguously Shown To Benefit Society In The Long Run. This Is What We Do All The Time With Other Products-drugs, Cars, Electrical Products And Many Others.

History Is On The Side Of The Regulators.

Between The Great Depression And The 1970s, Private Business Was Viewed With Suspicion Even In Most Capitalist Economies. Businesses Were, So The Story Goes, Seen As Anti-social Agents Whose Profit-seeking Needed To Be Restrained For Other, Supposedly Loftier, Goals, Such As Justice, Social Harmony, Protection Of The Weak And Even National Glory.