aujourd’hui<\/a>, qui donne un bon aper\u00e7u r\u00e9sum\u00e9 des grandes tendances en cours. On se doute qu’elles suivent toutes la m\u00eame dynamique.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00abAlarm over the health of leading US banks sent Wall Street shares plummeting for a fifth successive day despite a broad hint from the Federal Reserve of an imminent cut in interest rates. The Dow Jones industrial average slumped 508 points to 9,447. There were signs of a fresh collapse in confidence in financial institutions as Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch and Bank of America each lost a fifth of their value.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbIn a week, the blue-chip US index has fallen by 1,400 points, wiping 13% off share prices. The sell-off accelerated after the Fed’s chairman, Ben Bernanke, warned of dark days ahead: Economic activity is likely to be subdued during the remainder of this year and into next year. He spoke of financial turmoil in a speech to a conference in Washington. Bernanke said the slowdown had eased the risk of inflation and in a sentence widely interpreted as a suggestion of an interest rate cut, he added: The Federal Reserve will need to consider whether the current stance of policy remains appropriate.<\/em> [] <\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbPresident George Bush, who was visiting an office supply company in a Washington suburb, acknowledged that times were Tough but insisted the US would recover, saying: We’ve been through tough times before. I wish I could snap my fingers and make what happened stop. But that’s not the way it works.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\tLe comportement des dirigeants US est inepte, du point de vue politique et psychologique. D’une part ils reviennent \u00e0 des propos alarmistes apr\u00e8s la stupide accalmie de la croyance aux vertus miraculeuses du plan Paulson; on jugera ces propos alarmistes fort probablement fond\u00e9s mais ils sont uniquement techniques (Barnanke) ou sans la moindre consistance (Bush), donc sans effet cr\u00e9atif. Aucun effort marquant de mobilisation psychologique, d’incitation lanc\u00e9e \u00e0 la population, aucune tentative d’\u00e9largir l’action du gouvernement \u00e0 une action collective d’unit\u00e9 nationale pour affronter le danger. On fait confiance au syst\u00e8me qui nous d\u00e9montre m\u00e9caniquement, depuis plusieurs mois, les effets catastrophiques de ces vices. Les experts, confits dans leur cloisonnement satisfait et dans leurs certitudes techniques, continuent \u00e0 dire que la Grande D\u00e9pression per se<\/em> ne peut se reproduire parce que, depuis 1931-33, des mesures techniques imparables ont \u00e9t\u00e9 mises en place pour que la chose ne se reproduise pas. On voit les premiers r\u00e9sultats de cet aveuglement d’\u00e9conomiste incapable de prendre en main l’\u00e9l\u00e9ment humain (psychologique) alors que tout le monde ne cesse d’affirmer l’importance de cet \u00e9l\u00e9ment. Sans doute la Grande D\u00e9pression telle qu’elle s’est produite ne se reproduira pas selon les m\u00eames param\u00e8tres techniques mais, avec un pouvoir politique de cet acabit, on pourrait bien avoir pire. Quant \u00e0 la psychologie du d\u00e9sespoir qui marqua les ann\u00e9es 1931-33, on pourrait effectivement la retrouver, mais dans des conditions pires, sans aucun FDR \u00e0 l’horizon si Obama continue \u00e0 se contenter pour son parcours \u00e9lectoral de ce que McCain perd avec r\u00e9gularit\u00e9.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\tMis en ligne le 8 octobre 2008 \u00e0 09H45<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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