Quote from Appleseed:he didn't say let all the banks fail.what he said was let the incompetent banks fail so the competent institutions will prevail
From what I gathered in all these Rogers interviews he proposals include
a) Dissolve the Federal Reserve with immediate effect. Bernanke should resign.
b) If a bank or any other company fails, so be it. No bailouts, ever. This would help "clear out the system" asap so "we can start with a clean base".
c) Let the market forces deal with any problems. No regulation needed. Markets are self-correcting and always efficient according to Rogers.
You know, for all I know we could right now be drifting into Great Depression #2 right now. But with all the action by global Central Banks and Governments
at least there is a faint chance of avoiding the severity of an outright Depression (-10% GDP) and it might end up 'just' being a nasty, long recession and lengthy period of readjustment.
But with Rogers convoluted ideas of libertarian free market ideas
there is no doubt whatsoever we'd already be in the middle of Great Depression #2 right now, complete with a total freeze of the global banking system, corporate short term debt market completely disfunctional for months or years, thousands of bank failures, bank run panics worldwide etc.
If Rogers at least was honest on TV and said "Look, I want the Fed dissolved, I want them to stop tampering with the system. This will likely cause a Global Depression and panic-induced bank runs, GDP will shrink 15%, Unemployment in the US will goto 15% but it's necessary to heal our economy in the long term".
Why can't he spell it out like that? The truth hurts too much?