Manning & Morris, The Ancient Economy p.86, cites Polanyi’s Great Transformation & Our Osolete Market Mentality for conclusion that society uses 3 main mechanisms to provide citizens goods & services
Image Source http://www.newyorker.com/images/2008/12/22/p233/081222_r18074_p233.jpg Bailout amounts Job losses http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2009/01/09/worst-year-since-1945-with-more-pain-to-come/trackback/ More banks will fail http://blogs.wsj.com/marketbeat/2009/01/06/banks-credit-quality-expected-to-worsen/trackback/ Decline in residential & commercial property markets http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123085781068147847.html Unemployment rate http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/empsit.pdf Off the cliff REITs http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123067570012543757.html?mod=loomia&loomia_si=t0:a16:g2:r1:c0.034484:b0 Stock market losses http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&refer=home&sid=ataVotdLreS0
SEC knew of Madoff scam since 1999 http://www.sec.gov/news/press/2008/2008-297.htm
Environmentalism http://www.jlaw.com/Articles/environmentbible2.pdf Geneivat da'at http://www.jlaw.com/Articles/geneivatdaat.html Healthy competition http://www.jlaw.com/Articles/hasagatgevul.html Stumbling block before the blind http://www.jlaw.com/Articles/placingstumbling.html Interest limits http://www.jlaw.com/Articles/venture_notes.html#Note5 Bad advice/sin http://www.jlaw.com/Articles/interestAndTheBlindBorrower.pdf
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Ashraf Ghani estimated 90% of foreign aid in Afghanistan was wasted http://www.rawa.org/rebuild2.htm George Ayittey http://www.utexas.edu/conferences/africa/ads/943.html