Svet, kakršnega poznamo, izginja, navaja Spiegel v svoji spletni izdaji nekega posrednika z Wall Streeta. ‘Nič več ne bo, kakor je bilo.’ Marsikaj že ni več: Lloyds TBS je davi ‘v silobranu’ prevzela HBOS (Halifax Bank of Scotland) in do konca dneva bo zelo verjetno zgodovina postala še kakšna velika ameriška banka. Ozračje pričakovanja sodnega dne se, kakor je videti, nezadržno širi; Wall Street Journal zloslutno spominja na trideseta leta prejšnjega stoletja,

Expectations for a quick end to the crisis are fading fast. “I think it’s going to last a lot longer than perhaps we would have anticipated,” Anne Mulcahy, chief executive of Xerox Corp., said Wednesday.
“This has been the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. There is no question about it,” said Mark Gertler, a New York University economist who worked with fellow academic Ben Bernanke, now the Federal Reserve chairman, to explain how financial turmoil can infect the overall economy. “But at the same time we have the policy mechanisms in place fighting it, which is something we didn’t have during the Great Depression.”

New York Times skrbi, ali nista ogroženi tudi Morgan Stanley in Goldman Sachs,

Investors appeared to be questioning whether either Morgan Stanley or Goldman Sachs would be able to survive alone as panic spread through the markets. The cost of protecting against defaults on the debt of both have shot up, a signal that some investors believe one or both of the banks could be next in the growing list of financial companies to either go bust, get sold or require a government bailout. Any institution without a big, stable balance sheet is seen as vulnerable to the kind of rapid collapse in confidence that led to the demise of Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers.

Ron Chernow pa v istem časopisu ugotavlja

“I fear the government has passed the point of no return,” said Ron Chernow, a leading American financial historian. “We have the irony of a free-market administration doing things that the most liberal Democratic administration would never have been doing in its wildest dreams.”

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Mi? Mi smo nekje tam, kjer so tiste milijarde evrov sindiciranih posojil tujih bank, krediti za menedžerske odkupe, gradnjo avtocest, naložbe v nepremičnine, vzajemne sklade in delnice … Kje točno to je, še ne vemo, zna pa biti, da nam ne bo všeč, ko bomo izvedeli.

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