roar of capitalism is louder than ever now because they have never been so afraid. China - succeeding despite its unwillingness to allow a market free for all; Russia - rolling back economic glasnost & steadily renationalizing the assets stolen by the oligarchs; India, South America & Africa increasingly looking to China & Russia as their role models instead of Western capitalism. All these signs of state managed 'capitalism' are scaring the beejeebers out of the 'take all you can' capitalists. The alternative models are gaining ground. The tipping point is getting close. First and foremost, it has just saved us from financial collapse. But that is where its usefulness only begins. There is no other means to fight the growing influence of organised crime, to ensure that the lives of an ageing population end in dignity or that the economy has the resilience to survive shortages of food, energy and raw materials in a world of growing and unforeseen scarcities. You do not understand how the financial bubbles grew out of (and have been perpetuated to this day) by the State (for political reasons) keeping interest rates below the level that the market would ever have set them; the State (implicitly) guaranteeing deposits in a banking system that the free market would not ever have supported; the State bailing out a banking elete that the free market would not have bailed out; the State casting in place a monetary system of fractional reserve lending so that banks are able