CHARBONNEAU – Ten years after the Great Recession, nothing’s changed
A DECADE LATER, the crisis that threatened to take down the global financial order seems like a bad dream. Now it’s business as usual.
In 2008, banking institutions creaked and groaned under the weight of flawed investments. Mohamed El-Erian, CEO of a large U.S. investment management firm, phoned his wife and asked her to withdraw as much money as she could from an ATM because he feared the banks wouldn’t open the next day. A hedge fund manager sent an email to a journalist during the meltdown saying: “It feels a little like the end of the world.”
But the problems have been fixed, haven’t they? Yohann Koshy, editor for New Internationalist magazine, is not so sure.
David Charbonneau is a retired TRU electronics instructor who hosts a blog at http://www.eyeviewkamloops.wordpress.com.
ArmchairMayor.ca 
‘‘Twas ever thus….the more things change and blah, blah,blah. The rich keep accruing countless billions while the vast majority (ie the middle class) are barely clinging to their middle class status. How can the CEOs and their ilk think that salaries of 20, 30, and 40 million are in any way shape or form a fair and equitable distribution of wealth?!?? Trust me A Great Correction is Coming!
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