Comments on: A blind spot for Leviathan

By: Nicholas Colloff

Nicholas Colloff — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 07:15:19 +0000

Diana Henriques comment suggests a person on the Titanic being thankful that it had not hit a second iceberg…

More seriously,

if the financial commentators appear ‘out to lunch’, the policy makers appear to out of their depth (with honourable exceptions) both in crisis

management, rushing to put out yesterday’s fire, and failing to recognise the systemic nature of the crisis.

We seem trapped between

‘hysteria’ (financial markets, the media) and complacency disguised as ‘doing what is necessary’ when it clearly is not.

Where are the

clear heads thinking through creating a renewing order?

Alan Smith — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 11:47:08 +0000

Dear Ann,
How can you get your message out more so that these commentators can look as silly as they are.
Love your work

Brian Morgan — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 05:10:57 +0000

Loved her book “The Coming First World Debt Crisis”, just afraid that I am reading it a bit too late.

It’s silly how much of

the news that we get in the USA is hindsight – someone needs to come up with a non-corporate news program that forecasts the events that will

happen (since knowing is vital) instead of telling us what happened in hindsight.

Where was this intelligent witty woman when I was in

college… opps that slipped out.
All the best…

Brian P. Smith — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 00:18:02 +0000

What a wonderful article! It really does put into perspective how removed from reality many (if not most) of the financial commentators

are. All they see is their own little world where all that matters is how much they stand to lose if the stock market does what it should have done

years ago – come back down to earth. The problems experienced by the rest of us “ordinary” people don’t matter to them! The fact that many of the

problems were caused by the financial sector in the first place don’t seem to occur to them.