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Monetary policy is not solely to blame for this banking crisis

The view that what has gone wrong with our economies in the past few decades is mainly loose monetary policy is a cop out.

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So, who, or what, is to blame? Why, 15 years after the start of the last financial crisis, might we be seeing that of another?

For many, it is the fault of a long period of ultra-low interest rates imposed by central banks. For others, the cult of the bailout is at fault.

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Martin Wolf is chief economics commentator at the Financial Times, London. He was awarded the Commander of the British Empire in 2000 “for services to financial journalism”.

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