i.e. Neoliberalism is at heart the belief, the faith that markets are always automatically self-correcting, stable and tend to equilibrium.
It's just not true, but until we beat the knowledge that it's not true into the average economist and the average politician we're not going to get very far in reforming the system.
The only real solution is to replace these policy makers with ones with a different agenda. That requires public support. That requires a public willing to consider alternatives. Should the next year prove as interesting as the last those conditions may obtain. The question is who will prevail? As the Dutch said while fighting the Spanish: "It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."
