January 23, 2008

Do not dig us deeper in the hole we’re in!

Sir, Ieke van den Burg when writing “We must have strengthened oversight of bank sector” January 23, seems to propose we dig ourselves deeper in the hole where in, when asking for the creation of “holistic” public oversight. That, just as the empowerment of the credit rating agencies meant will just increase the systemic risks of global failure.

As I see it the best way to go is to follow the tradition of not putting all your eggs in the same basket and therefore creating a progressive tax on the size of the banks. The larger the bank, the more it will hurt if it fails, so the more it should pay in insurance premiums.

Marx prophesied “a progressive diminution in the number of the capitalist magnates” and the best way I know of fighting Marxism is to stop this prophecy from becoming a reality.