Comments on: Bailout Fatigue Syndrome http://rudeawakening.agorafinancial.com/2008/11/20/bailout-fatigue-syndrome/ Hot Coffee In the Face of Wall Street Thu, 05 Nov 2009 06:41:47 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Economic issues | Bailout Fatigue Syndrome - Contrarian Stock Market Investing News - Featuring Bargain Stocks http://rudeawakening.agorafinancial.com/2008/11/20/bailout-fatigue-syndrome/comment-page-1/#comment-749 Economic issues | Bailout Fatigue Syndrome - Contrarian Stock Market Investing News - Featuring Bargain Stocks Thu, 29 Jan 2009 19:15:58 +0000 http://www.agorafinancial.com/afrude/?p=420#comment-749 [...] Source: Bailout Fatigue Syndrome Tags: AIG, Bailout, Dollar Losses, Eric Fry, Fdic, Federal Reserve, Finance Companies, Gm, TARP, Treasury Department By Eric J Fry [...] [...] Source: Bailout Fatigue Syndrome Tags: AIG, Bailout, Dollar Losses, Eric Fry, Fdic, Federal Reserve, Finance Companies, Gm, TARP, Treasury Department By Eric J Fry [...]

]]> By: RiskAverseAlert http://rudeawakening.agorafinancial.com/2008/11/20/bailout-fatigue-syndrome/comment-page-1/#comment-620 RiskAverseAlert Thu, 20 Nov 2008 18:29:26 +0000 http://www.agorafinancial.com/afrude/?p=420#comment-620 The one big problem I have with all the harping about bailouts and their likely failure is the commentators' general failure to site the impact of a game that has largely been rigged by a failed financial/economic regime. Generally speaking, we are reaping the reward of the collapse of the Bretton Woods regime back in the early 70s. What business can maintain a reasonable "going concern" status when the underpinnings of global exchange are so volatile? Add to this all the various monetarist monkey schemes that have made for volatility in business finance, and then again too all the various attacks on reasonable regulation that have caused excessive fluctuations in prices for business inputs (i.e. commodities), is it any wonder, then, staid American institutions -- both industrial and financial -- find themselves at the brink of collapse? I think not. The problem with the "free market" ideology arrives when the market becomes free falling. And so now we come full circle to the very cause for which the American Revolution was fought. Our problem is not bailouts. Our problem is having allowed such tyranny to prevail as has necessitated such temporary, unworkable, short-sighted measures to be the best, inside-the-box alternative. The one big problem I have with all the harping about bailouts and their likely failure is the commentators’ general failure to site the impact of a game that has largely been rigged by a failed financial/economic regime.

Generally speaking, we are reaping the reward of the collapse of the Bretton Woods regime back in the early 70s.

What business can maintain a reasonable “going concern” status when the underpinnings of global exchange are so volatile? Add to this all the various monetarist monkey schemes that have made for volatility in business finance, and then again too all the various attacks on reasonable regulation that have caused excessive fluctuations in prices for business inputs (i.e. commodities), is it any wonder, then, staid American institutions — both industrial and financial — find themselves at the brink of collapse? I think not.

The problem with the “free market” ideology arrives when the market becomes free falling. And so now we come full circle to the very cause for which the American Revolution was fought. Our problem is not bailouts. Our problem is having allowed such tyranny to prevail as has necessitated such temporary, unworkable, short-sighted measures to be the best, inside-the-box alternative.

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