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Time to start that old death watch on capitalism
Published Tue, Feb 28, 2017 · 09:50 PM
Washington
THE global capitalist system has been having a tough decade. We can probably all agree on that.
Lots of explanations have been offered for why things have been going so poorly: inadequate regulation, excessive regulation, excessive monetary easing, inadequate fiscal stimulus, inequality, "secular stagnation", you name it.
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