The Brain & The Economy

It's common knowledge that loans are often effected between banks, like authors would lend or borrow ideas from each other, or hospitals making loans of staff, medicine, blood or organs to help each other out in emergency cases. In other words, pretty normal practice. What is not so normal in recent days is that they are still doing so now in the midst of general economic crisis. To what purpose I can't help but wonder, when the present day economic crisis and fear of recession is having the worldwide effect. Discarding the absurd presumption of solidarity, the only reason left is the interest. I give you so much and you give me back so much and a half.

I am totally ignorant on the subject of economy with all it's intrigues and it's important influences in moving the country forward, therefore not quite see how some banks can lend out money on one hand, and crying out loud for help and emergency measures at the same time. Nevertheless, I think I do see that thanks to the inter-exchanges, money flows through the social and economic body like blood for the organism, transporting oxygen (or increased value or appreciation) to all parts of the body. Very much like transfusion of blood in hospitals.

Such analogy or resemblance helps layman like me to understand better the importance of credit or value in our lives. Where I am still very much in the dark is who, or what, fulfills the roll of the liver, the pancreas or the heart (if it has one)? Most of all, I don't understand who, or where is the brain that generate such a system.

As far as I know, a human body can be perfectly healthy from the point of view that the circulation of the blood functions as it should, but the brain might have been damaged therefore totally void of activity, or full of crazy hallucinations. This person is healthy, but he is not active nor productive. Like patients in the state of coma. Sometimes the patients would wake up or with some temporary lucid moments, sometimes not at all. Had the brain that directs all economic systems been in coma with the euphoria of wine and Roses of the affluent bygone days, had woken up to the paralytic threat of recession?

So now the banks are in debt up to their eyes, but out of crisis like a perfectly healthy body. Is it so too the brain? What do you say?

 

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