{"id":121134,"date":"2021-07-28T16:00:06","date_gmt":"2021-07-28T09:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/another-roaring-20s-we-need-to-do-better-than-that-dan-davies\/"},"modified":"2021-07-28T16:06:51","modified_gmt":"2021-07-28T09:06:51","slug":"another-roaring-20s-we-need-to-do-better-than-that-dan-davies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/another-roaring-20s-we-need-to-do-better-than-that-dan-davies\/","title":{"rendered":"Another roaring 20s? We need to do better than that | Dan Davies"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nWhen the pandemic wanes, bold ideas and big investment could create a new economic miracle for the 21st centuryEconomic history isn\u2019t like normal history \u2013 it doesn\u2019t repeat itself as farce and it doesn\u2019t rhyme. Technology moves on, political and legal systems develop, debtors turn into creditors and vice versa. But some economic structures remain stubbornly the same. As Karl Marx said, we make our own history, but not in circumstances of our own choosing. Using the past to guide decisions in the present requires understanding what has endured and what has changed, and taking a sober view of our history \u2013 not simply replicating the supposed golden ages of the past.For that reason, we shouldn\u2019t aim to repeat the \u201croaring 20s\u201d just because the decade starts with a two and we\u2019re (hopefully) coming to the end of a pandemic similar to the Spanish flu. Despite the name, the roaring 20s were not all that great for most of the population. Growth was sluggish and the falling prices of consumer goods concealed widening inequality by making everyone feel rich, much like the decade preceding the 2008 financial crisis. In the 20th century as in the 21st, a period of growth ended in a financial crash, a lost decade, the rise of rightwing populism and leading countries turning their back on trading blocs. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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