Goldman Sachs Expresses the Tenets of Neoliberalism

Goldman Sachs would certainly uphold Neoliberalist beliefs as it fits in with what they uphold.

Neoliberalism means:

--controlling the economy by shifting from the public sector to the private sector;
--the reduction of deficit spending;
--limiting subsidies;
--reforming tax law often by lowering taxes for the wealthy while spreading the tax base;
--opening up markets to trade and limiting protectionism;
--privatizing state-run businesses;
--encouraging de-regulation;
--holding private property as sacrosanct.
(from Investopedia)

Neoliberalism has spawned a financial elite who hold governments to ransom
The crash was a write-off, not a repair job.  The response should be a wholesale re-evaluation of the way in which wealth is created and distributed around the globe.
By Deborah Orr - The Guardian
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Yet, mealy-mouthed and hotly contested as this minor mea culpa is, it's still a sign that financial institutions may slowly be coming round to the idea that they are the problem. They know the crash was a debt-bubble that burst. What they don't seem to acknowledge is that the merry days of reckless lending are never going to return; even if they do, the same thing will happen again, but more quickly and more savagely. The thing is this: the crash was a write-off, not a repair job. The response from the start should have been a wholesale reevaluation of the way in which wealth is created and distributed around the globe, a "structural adjustment", as the philosopher John Gray has said all along.

The IMF exists to lend money to governments, so it's comic that it wags its finger at governments that run up debt. And, of course, its loans famously come with strings attached: adopt a free-market economy, or strengthen the one you have, kissing goodbye to the Big State. Yet, the irony is painful. Neoliberal ideology insists that states are too big and cumbersome, too centralised and faceless, to be efficient and responsive. I agree. The problem is that the ruthless sentimentalists of neoliberalism like to tell themselves – and anyone else who will listen – that removing the dead hand of state control frees the individual citizen to be entrepreneurial and productive. Instead, it places the financially powerful beyond any state, in an international elite that makes its own rules, and holds governments to ransom. That's what the financial crisis was all about. The ransom was paid, and as a result, governments have been obliged to limit their activities yet further – some setting about the task with greater relish than others. Now the task, supposedly, is to get the free market up and running again.

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