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Creating Financial Harmony:Lessons for China

2008-11-28

Beijing Review 2008年47期

The current tur-moil in globalfinancial nlar.ket s.whichbegan with the U.S. sub-prime mortgage crisis in2007, has shed a bad lighton market liberalism. Butit was the socialization of risk, not privatefree markets, that precipitated the crisis.Government sponsored enterprises (GSEs),not private enterprises, politicized invest-ment decisions and overextended credit bybuying up and guaranteeing subprime andother risky mortgages.