Why today's finance system was made for yesterday's economies

Leaving aside for the moment the complicated issues connected with the valuing of complex financial devices, it appears that their overall impact on the global financial crisis has been exaggerated.

Although toxic assets undeniably lit the match, it is hard to believe that these alone were the ammunition store that has exploded.

This observation leads us to the suggestion that there may be other parameters at play in the...

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