Re: Adam Tooze: Politics don’t matter; market forces shape our world (The Observer/Guardian)

2018-08-10 Thread Keith Hart
In a 1986 article, "Heads or tails? Two sides of the coin", I argued that politics and markets are both intrinsic to money. The idea that politics (Keynes) had been superseded by markets (Friedman) was bound to lead to massive errors in money management. When politics are made to disappear from vi

Re: Adam Tooze: Politics don’t matter; market forces shape our world (The Observer/Guardian)

2018-08-10 Thread Brian Holmes
Well, this is a very interesting article. Up to the part "The Crash Changes Everything" it is all exceedingly familiar. But the observations about the City are fascinating and require inside knowledge. The key point is here: In 2013, the City began marketing itself as the offshore centre for China