Comments on: Thinking About a Global New Deal

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Sun, 12 Oct 2008 01:30:20 +0000

[...] we as a planet should go. I have written in the blog about certain components of this. See “Global New Deal” and “The New Frugality.”Permit me a slight detour. We now know that fraudulent [...]

By: martin

martin — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 17:02:24 +0000

Dan and Ron,

Thanks for the comments. In the political campaigns there is no one speaking about these issues, but with this meltdown I think it is game over for McCain. The question is whether Obama can rise to the occasion and articulate a new vision.

Somebody better.

Martin

By: Ron Davison

Ron Davison — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 16:28:11 +0000

Yours seems to me the most important question. The G-7’s national financial markets were stable during the last half of the 21st century. We now have global financial markets and nothing akin to those national policies at the global level. The question is how we would create that globally. Do you know who – say within any of the campaigns – is asking this question?

By: Daniel Carins

Daniel Carins — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 09:51:19 +0000

What phase comes after denial? Here in the UK we’re in a “blame” phase, where everyone seems to hold Labour and Gordon Brown responsible. It’s likely that Labour will implode at the general election and the centre right Conservatives elected, who will be able to do very little against global forces.

Perhaps then people will remember and realise that these problems are bigger than governments, but by then it will be too late – the damage will be permanent to the left in British politics who may be unelectable for decades afterwards. What then?