“The challenges the United States faces are familiar territory to the people at the IMF. If you hid the name of the country and just showed them the numbers, there is no doubt what old IMF hands would say: nationalize troubled banks and break them up as necessary.”
- Simon Johnson in ‘The Atlantic’ magazine.
Stephen Armstrong, writing about cult US police drama ‘The Wire’ in yesterday’s Sunday Times, sums up ‘the problem’ as follows:
“this whole show feels like a relentless and completely amoral battlefield in a decaying city where everyone is corrupt, incompetent, unpleasant or downright criminal, and anyone who tries for redemption is brutally killed.”
He might as well have been writing about the financial markets circa 2009. W.H. Auden also captured the current mood in ‘September 1, 1939’ which contains the following lines:
“I sit in one of the dives
On Fifty-second street
Uncertain and afraid
As the clever hopes expire
Of a low dishonest decade..
Lest we should see where we are,
Lost in a haunted wood,
Children afraid of the night,
Who have never been happy or
good..”
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