The Real Crisis Is Being Ignored In The UK

There is much discussion, see here for example, of whether the FSA or Bank of England get to oversee future financial regulation. Personally, I am getting a bit tired of it all as it is a really typical Government-style piece of bureaucratic infighting.

Worse, it is clouding over the real policy failures that have been made these last few months and also ignoring the real crisis we are seeing now in the Country.

Who cares about a macro-prudential economic panel that may or may not help to avoid another bubble in 50 years time. No sane bank or borrower is going to repeat the mistakes of the past few years having learned their lessons in such a costly manner so recently. Not that we do not need new rules, but the market has enforced them much faster than any regulation can be imposed.

So this hypothetical discussion is of little interest. It also is hiding the true debate which is what on earth we can do to both try and stop doing more quantitative easing whilst not letting the economy completely die? This may be happening in any event, in which case all the bureaucratic political warfare is real deck-chairs-on-the-Titanic-stuff: As with Generals down the ages the orders and weapons put in place for a new army are those needed to fight the last war, not the next one. The next economic period is about the controlling the collapse of the fiat money system as was and the huge inflationary pressures of a 6 billion person, resource-constrained world.

The Bank of England has run out of bullets, the FSA is concerned with minutiae and the Government is busy fighting over its future in opposition. This is not the leadership we would ideally like to see us through the crisis, it is a terrible failure of the UK political system as a whole.

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