No, I’m not talking about post-Katrina New Orleans. That was so then. I’m talking about the housing and credit crunches, as well as the Bear Stearns bailout, that have given the term bear market new meaning.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\tCette introduction \u00e0 son texte, pour nous signifier qu’il ne conna\u00eet rien \u00e0 l’\u00e9conomie, qu’il ne s’exprime surtout pas en \u00e9conomiste, qu’il pose donc le regard de Candide sur une chose que tous les sp\u00e9cialistes diss\u00e8quent \u00e0 longueur de colonnes pour annoncer des prolongements qui ne viennent en g\u00e9n\u00e9ral pas. Engelhardt a une autre position. Il analyse l’action de l’administration GW Bush depuis qu’elle est au pouvoir, tant de choses formidables entreprises ou d’\u00e9v\u00e9nements consid\u00e9rables qu’il faut ma\u00eetriser, autant d’\u00e9checs catastrophiques, sans un pli, sans la moindre h\u00e9sitation, \u00e9gren\u00e9s comme une litanie sans nuances. Pourquoi voudrait-on que, cette fois, dans la plus grave des circonstances, il r\u00e9ussisse?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\tC’est une vision rafra\u00eechissante de bon sens et, par cons\u00e9quent, effrayante dans ses conclusions. Il y a quelque chose de profond\u00e9ment convaincant dans cette description d’un gouvernement et d’un syst\u00e8me absolument pervertis, jusqu’\u00e0 ne plus rien pouvoir imaginer comme issue \u00e0 quelque probl\u00e8me que ce soit que la plus catastrophique de toutes. C’est l’argument le plus fort qu’on puisse entendre.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\t\u00abSo rebuilding. No. Saving people who aren’t already friends. No. Doing a heck of a job in a crisis. No. Now, our latest and greatest crisis is upon us, the sort that, in a matter of weeks, has sent media commentators and pundits from reluctant discussions of whether we might be heading into a recession straight to references to the d word, 1929, and the Great Depression. And they’re not alone. A recent USA Today\/Gallup poll indicates that a startling 59% of Americans already believe we’re heading for a long-term depression, not a recession (and 79% are worried about the possibility). Leave the definitional details to the experts. Most Americans have undoubtedly assessed the Bush administration’s proven incapacity in perilous times and drawn the logical conclusions.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbTen months is a long, long time when only their hands are near the pilot’s wheel of the ship of state and water’s already seeping through the hull. It’s an eon for an administration capable of sinking New Orleans in a matter of days, and Iraq in little more than months. Or, thought of another way, it’s plenty of time if your expertise happens to lie in deconstruction. After all, barring a miracle, you’re talking about the little administration that couldn’t, no matter how hard Ben Bernanke may try.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbSo, even if you, like me, know next to nothing about economics, you already know enough to be afraid, very afraid.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\tMis en ligne le 28 mars 2008 \u00e0 13H47<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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