"A decade ago, Sen. John McCain embraced legislation to broadly deregulate the banking and insurance industries, helping to sweep aside a thicket of rules established over decades in favor of a less restricted financial marketplace that proponents said would result in greater economic growth."
"In 2002 (...) The Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act aimed to make the country's financial institutions competitive by removing the Depression-era walls between banking, investment and insurance companies."
"I'm always for less regulation," he told the Wall Street Journal in March. He added: "I'd like to see a lot of the unnecessary government regulations eliminated."
Depois de anos e anos de des-regulamentação, de liberalização de mercados e regras, de diminuição da intervenção do Estado, de governos defensores do funcionamento livre dos mercados sem influências reguladoras (que seriam "nefastos obstáculos"), chega-se ao ponto de quebra do sistema: contra os fundamentos do sistema o Estado é forçado a nacionalizar empresas para evitar o colapso da economia. É este o "muro de Berlim" americano?
Obama: "So let's be clear: What we've seen the last few days is nothing less than the final verdict on an economic philosophy that has completely failed."
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