Did Armageddon Happen?
Several people in both Sweden and the U.S. have asked me if the bail-outs of 2008 saved us from “financial Armageddon” or “financial Götterdämmerung.” My question: What does Armageddon look like? Suppose there had been no bail-outs, and everything that’s happened since happened anyway. How many pundits would claim that the world we now see around us was indeed the foretold Armageddon? Half?
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