The Seven Secrets of 2020

Counting stocks: Global markets swung low then recovered slightly in 2020 PIC: businessinder.com
Counting stocks: Global markets swung low then recovered slightly in 2020 PIC: businessinder.com

This year has resembled a rapidly receding tide, forcing us to confront submerged truths. One lesson we learned in 2020 is that national governments had been choosing not to exercise their enormous powers so that those whom globalisation had enriched could exercise their own. YANIS VAROUFAKIS* writes

ATHENS – A house of cards. A set of lies we have unconsciously accepted. That’s what our certainties seem like during profound crises. Such episodes shock us into recognizing how unsafe our assumptions are. That is why this year has resembled a rapidly receding tide, forcing us to confront submerged truths.

We used to think, with good reason, that globalisation had defanged national governments. Presidents cowered before the bond markets. Prime ministers ignored their country’s poor but never Standard & Poor’s. Finance ministers behaved like Goldman Sachs’s knaves and the International Monetary Fund’s satraps. Media moguls, oil men, and financiers, no less than left-wing critics of globalised capitalism, agreed that governments were no longer in control.

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