Capitalism is dependent on credit, so financial crises serious enough to threaten the capitalist system must be resolved by socializing losses. The alternative is financial collapse leading to economic collapse and social chaos. Central banking and credit regulation were instituted at the heart of economic liberalism to correct the risk inherent in this type of system.The New Indian ExpressIs a full-blown global banking meltdown in the offing?Satyajit Das is a former banker and author of numerous works on derivatives and several general titles: Traders, Guns & Money: Knowns and Unknowns in the Dazzling World of Derivatives (2006 and 2010), Extreme Money: The Masters of the Universe and the Cult of Risk (2011), A Banquet of Consequences RELOADED (2021) and Fortune’s Fool: Australia’s
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Is a full-blown global banking meltdown in the offing?
Satyajit Das is a former banker and author of numerous works on derivatives and several general titles: Traders, Guns & Money: Knowns and Unknowns in the Dazzling World of Derivatives (2006 and 2010), Extreme Money: The Masters of the Universe and the Cult of Risk (2011), A Banquet of Consequences RELOADED (2021) and Fortune’s Fool: Australia’s Choices (2022).