Tuesday, July 7, 2009

Banks should not have played favorites

Free markets in a America is a myth. We have monopolists who are continuously propped up by government support.
A free market America would have let the money center banks go belly up so the free markets could cleanse themselves.
I recall it was the huge banks in Japan that prompted the U. S. to encourage U. S. banks to merge into unmanageable mega-bigness. Didn't Japan experience a still ongoing economic crush despite having megabanks too?
And now free markets simply means U. S. producers and manufacturers should shut down so companies in second and third world labor markets can become the new monopolists.
It was partly the banks that encouraged the huge concentrations in industry after industry because in their thinking it is easier to make one mega loan - and watch it (fail) - than make many smaller loans. But the megalenders have found out the borrowers are now so big the bank now works for them. Think about it. The borrowers can and do just liquidate and walk away.
The banks have to figure out how to get their huge megaloans back. How to get the mega derivatives unwound. How to make one huge loan to a lot of foreign low wage workers they wanted brought in.
When the banks started favoring a few businesses in each industry in order to consolidate them for lending efficiency they started down the free market path that leads to corporate welfare.