World Bank President Warns That Debt and Economic Crisis is Entering “Danger Zone”
Speaking at the Asia Society conference in Australia, Robert Zoellick, president of the World Bank, issued a sharp warning on the direction of the global economic and sovereign debt crisis. He told journalists, “I think we are entering a new danger zone and I think that confidence in economic leadership has been slipping and it will be important that the primary economic actors take steps both short and long term to restore that.”
The words of Zoellick reflect unusual candor from a high level policymaker involved in global economic activity. In essence, he confirms what my blog has been stating for many months; the empirical evidence suggests that the political actors in the major advanced economies are utterly inept when it come to economic and fiscal policy, and their collective incompetence is sending the whole world over a cliff.
