If only the bosses can keep investing and the masses can keep buying, then capitalism can stay afloat. The interest-rate cuts are calculated to pump more credit into the economy for the bosses and the masses. But this only stretches out the crisis. The system will eventually end up in a crisis. The Economist answers that it was not just a dream.
Consumer credit is at a record level of disposable income.
The most striking evidence of why this cannot last is that total household savings turned negative in September for the first time in 60 years. Companies have also been borrowing heavily to finance capitalist investment. Clearly spending cannot exceed income forever. The Brazilian bailout is part of a straightforward attempt to make the masses responsible for the funds to guarantee loans to imperialist banks. But it is doing nothing to stem the capitalist crisis there.