The post you are reporting:
"This is why the government needs to make supply-side reforms to encourage business expansion and to boost confidence."
So, if we were to throw away the rule-book and make paying taxes an entirely voluntary arrangement our economy would...
In the film, The 39 Steps (the Robert Donat version, I think) there are two corset salesmen heading off to Edinburgh. One of them sees an advert in a newspaper that tells him that he is too late, a competitor has cornered the market, with a superior product, to boot.
One has to feel for the poor sap-tappers, the dockside porters of Rangoon and the entire workforce of the firm which he represents.
I suppose that, even with an inferior product, had he caught a much earlier train all would have been well for those mentioned above, albeit less so for the women of Scotland.
So...even with tawdry wares and competitive pricing, fortuitous timing is all.
All, that is, while there is a market for the 'good' you have to sell.
With all this talk of lending or not lending, saving or investing and confidence or dread: Where is the consumer and from where are these same (patient) consumers to get their wherewithal to purchase?
If a company does not intend to sell to much the same people that it employs, who is there to buy?
P.S.
These dot-com crashes are surely just another facet of the 'Ponsy -Scheme' of share dealership. He who gets in early can earn off of those who come late?