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George Soros on the Coming U.S. Class War
Key Excerpts from Article on Website of Newsweek Magazine
Posted: April 2nd, 2012
http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2012/01/22/george-soro...
I am not here to cheer you up. The situation is about as serious and difficult as Ive experienced in my career, [George] Soros tells Newsweek. We are facing an extremely difficult time, comparable in many ways to the 1930s, the Great Depression. We are facing now a general retrenchment in the developed world, which threatens to put us in a decade of more stagnation, or worse. The best-case scenario is a deflationary environment. The worst-case scenario is a collapse of the financial system. Soros draws on his past to argue that the global economic crisis is as significant, and unpredictable, as the end of Communism. To Soros, the spectacular debunking of the credo of efficient markets the notion that markets are rational and can regulate themselves to avert disaster is comparable to the collapse of Marxism as a political system. Understanding, he says, is key. Unrestrained competition can drive people into actions that they would otherwise regret. The tragedy of our current situation is the unintended consequence of imperfect understanding. A lot of the evil in the world is actually not intentional. A lot of people in the financial system did a lot of damage without intending to. Still, Soros believes the West is struggling to cope with the consequences of evil in the financial world just as former Eastern bloc countries struggled with it politically. Is he really saying that the financial whizzes behind our economic meltdown were not just wrong, but evil? Thats correct.
Note: For lots more from major media sources on the criminal practices of the biggest banks and financial firms and the collusion of government agencies, see our "Banking Bailout" newsarticles.
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