{"id":10718,"date":"2011-06-27T14:50:05","date_gmt":"2011-06-27T13:50:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=10718"},"modified":"2011-06-27T14:50:05","modified_gmt":"2011-06-27T13:50:05","slug":"reflections-on-greece-4-you-cant-have-politicians-living-in-fear-of-banks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2011\/06\/27\/reflections-on-greece-4-you-cant-have-politicians-living-in-fear-of-banks\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflections on Greece &#8211; 4 &#8211; you can&#8217;t have politicians living in fear of banks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2011\/06\/27\/reflections-on-greece-3-you-cant-devote-your-entire-economic-policy-to-maintenance-of-a-market\/\" target=\"_blank\">have argued that<\/a> no country can devote its entire economic policy to maintaining an external marketplace, \u00a0and yet that is what the existence of the Eurozone \u00a0demanded of its member states. \u00a0Of course, they have failed to deliver: that is the whole basis of the current Greek crisis.<\/p>\n<p>Now we have a crisis there is another aspect of the Euro worth noting. \u00a0When you put a currency at the core of your economic policy you put the bankers in charge. \u00a0Unsurprisingly \u00a0as a result the winners from this whole debacle \u00a0have been the banks.<\/p>\n<p>The losers have been politicians across Europe, who've universally shown themselves unable to face up to the demands of those banks, or to have the intellectual capacity to make appropriate decisions when faced with a crisis within their economies.<\/p>\n<p>There should be no surprise to this: \u00a0neoliberalism has ensured we have an enfeebled breed of politicians who think that anything that they do is bound to result in sub optimal outcomes for those they are meant to serve. Hardly surprisingly they are incapacitated as a result.<\/p>\n<p>What we need is a new breed of politicians who do not live in fear of banks. \u00a0And they are only likely to come from the left.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have argued that no country can devote its entire economic policy to maintaining an external marketplace, \u00a0and yet that is what the existence of<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2011\/06\/27\/reflections-on-greece-4-you-cant-have-politicians-living-in-fear-of-banks\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70,35,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-banking","category-economics","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}