{"id":44089,"date":"2019-02-27T09:37:30","date_gmt":"2019-02-27T14:37:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=44089"},"modified":"2019-02-27T09:37:33","modified_gmt":"2019-02-27T14:37:33","slug":"crisis-after-crisis-why-financial-sector-reform-is-not-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=44089","title":{"rendered":"Crisis after crisis: Why financial sector reform is not enough"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Crisis after crisis: Why financial sector reform is not enough<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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It is now clear that financial crises are not discrete events but are linked phenomena that have been unleashed on the globe ever since the financial markets were liberalized during the Reagan-Thatcher era in the early 1980\u2019s. To take just the three most prominent crashes, surplus capital that could not find profitable domestic outlets after the Japanese bubble burst in the late eighties found its way as speculative capital into Southeast Asia, where it contributed to the Asian financial crisis in 1997-98; and the Asian crisis, in turn, helped generate Wall Street\u2019s implosion in 2008 owing to the Asian countries\u2019 channeling their financial reserves \u2013 accumulated to protect them from a repeat of 1997 \u2013 into the US, where they helped fuel the subprime real estate boom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The turbulence that hit global stock markets last February, causing much fright and a paper loss of 4 trillion dollars, was a reminder that the next big implosion may be just around the corner. A just concluded study by the Transnational Institute reveals that in 10 critical areas where major reform is needed, few to no measures have been taken to prevent a recurrence of 2008.[1]These areas range from shadow banking to fractional reserve banking to international financial governance to central bank accountability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Skating on thin ice once more<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, not surprisingly, current indicators show that the world again is skating on thin ice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First, the \u201ctoo big to fail\u201d problem has become worse. The big banks that were rescued by the US government in 2008 because they were seen as too big to fail have become even more too big to fail, with the \u201cBig Six\u201d US banks \u2013 JP Morgan Chase, Citigroup, Wells Fargo, Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, and Morgan Stanley \u2013 collectively having 43 per cent more deposits, 84 per cent more assets, and triple the amount of cash they held before the 2008 crisis. Essentially, they have doubled the risk that felled the banking system in 2008.[2]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Crisis after crisis: Why financial sector reform is not enough It is now clear that financial crises are not discrete events but are linked phenomena that have been unleashed on the globe ever since the financial markets were liberalized during the Reagan-Thatcher era in the early 1980\u2019s. To take just the three most prominent crashes, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[312,24497,24496,21773],"class_list":["post-44089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","tag-financial-crisis","tag-financial-sector-reform","tag-tni-long-reads","tag-walden-bello"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44089"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44090,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44089\/revisions\/44090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}