Over an early-morning coffee with the chief executive of an FTSE 100 business last week, talk turned to the outlook for 2013. Where I had expected some guarded optimism, instead I heard a chilling analysis.
The CEO said he had been reading a new paper from Boston Consulting Group headed “ Ending the era of Ponzi finance ”. The lessons he had taken from it were miserable.
The West was not going to find its way to the right economic path with a little tweaking at the edges, the CEO said. What is needed is a wholesale overhaul of the economic system to tackle record levels of public and private debt. Was anyone brave enough to do it, he wondered aloud.
I asked him to send me the report. He did.
The BCG study by Daniel Stelter which is doing the rounds of corporate C-suites does not pull its punches. In fact, its punches are really just a softening-up exercise for a barrage of kicks and painful blows aimed at anyone who thinks that kicking the can down the road is a suitable substitute for radical action.
Read More at businessinsider.com . By Kamal Ahmed, The Telegraph.
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Economics 101 – The bigger the government; the smaller the private sector.
U.S. fiscal reform:
Reductions in Government (Size)
Reductions in Government Control and Regulations
Reductions in Government SPENDING
AZ-Ike, Good job of calling it like it is. Now you would think that all the educated minds in Washington could figure it out.
They are lawyers so it won`t happen. Lawyers live in a dream world.