“Many economists and analysts are worrying that the United States might go the way of Japan, which suffered a ‘lost decade’ after its own real estate market fell apart in the early 1990s. But I’m more concerned that the United States is coming to resemble Argentina, Russia and other so-called emerging markets, both in what led us to the crisis, and in how we’re trying to fix it,” wrote Desmond Lachman of the American Enterprise Institute. He argued that the parallels between U.S. policymaking and what we see in emerging markets are clearest in how we’ve mishandled the banking crisis. “We delude ourselves that our banks face liquidity problems, rather than deeper solvency problems, and we try to fix it all on the cheap just like any run-of-the-mill emerging market economy would try to do,” he said.
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