Surviving the Debt Storm

Getting capitalism back on track

Leigh Skene, Melissa Kidd

• Publisher: Profile Books
• Year: 2013
• Topic: Business
• eBook ISBN:
  9781847659521
• Subtopic: Business General
• Index: Business

Banking system collapses have annihilated credit markets and even the few borrowers with investment grade credit ratings cannot borrow. Conditions are worse than when the monetary system collapsed in 1931. Government revenue streams have shrunk to a trickle and services have shrivelled commensurately. Benefits are virtually non-existent, so protests, civil disobedience and riots continue to rise. Developed nation hope for emerging nation growth to provide export markets vanished with China plummeting into prolonged recession. Instead, China is trying to distract its increasingly restive population from their problems with an aggressive foreign policy over military control of the South China Sea ...

Can this actually happen? Indeed it can! In fact, this book is a searing indictment of the agenda now adopted by governments and central banks, which is likely to result in yet more bank failures, countries leaving the eurozone, dysfunctional capital markets and higher taxes and reduced government services and benefits.

Yet it is still not too late to choose a different path that will help put capitalism back on track. Skene and Kidd outline what that path should be to ensure a prosperous rather than austere future.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Figures and tables
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• 1 Why bubbles? Why do they always burst?
• 2 The six signs of progress
• 3 This time it really is different
• 4 Policy errors
• 5 Too big to fail – too haughty to learn
• 6 Absolutely necessary structural reforms
• 7 Lessons from the crisis-practised emerging markets
• 8 Deflation is not a four-letter word
• 9 An end to the euro
• 10 The required restructuring
• 11 Emerging market locomotives
• 12 The post-crash world
• 13 Conclusions
• Notes
• Glossary
• Index