Tuesday, October 16, 2007

Experts Fear Repeat Of 1929 Economic Crash

Experts Fear Repeat Of 1929 Economic Crash
Kuttner blames "insiders with conflicts of interest" for meltdown danger, tanking of dollar


Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet
Tuesday, October 16, 2007


Two prominent economic experts have warned that "insiders with conflicts of interest" allied to the Fed's policy of tanking the dollar to bail out Wall Street could lead to a repeat of the economic crash of 1929, during a segment on Bill Moyers' PBS show.

"I think there are three big parallels between what happened in the 20's and what has been happening in Wall Street lately," Robert Kuttner told Moyers.

Kuttner is a veteran economic journalist and a former legislative assistant in congress.

"One is insiders with conflicts of interest that are not fully disclosed to the public generally, secondly - there's much too much borrowed money....particularly in the financially engineered parts of the economy....and third is the lack of transparency - regulators and the public don't get any kind of disclosure," added the former BusinessWeek writer.

Kuttner blamed an economy based on "asset bubbles" for the rising tension in the markets and said that, similarly to the 1920's, "engineered euphoria" and companies cooking the books had combined to endanger the safety of the economy.



Source:
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/october2007/161007_economic_crash.htm