Hazel Henderson, coauthor of the Cosimo book The Power of Yin and a longtime advocate for global financial reform, offers an insightful new perspective on the ongoing economic meltdown in her new editorial at Ethical Markets, “Diagnosing the Economic Body Politic”:

[L]et’s flesh out the diagnosis in broader medical terms: The body economic suffers from:

• An enlarged heart and circulatory system. Unlike the earlier medical remedies of blood-letting, today’s economic doctors seem intent on increasing the body’s blood supply, creating hematomas in the banking sector. Injecting liquidity has led to edemas with pools and clotting in various organs and sectors. Bypass surgery may be the answer to downsizing bloated, “too big to fail” Wall Street firms, banks and “insurance” companies while re-directing the transfusions to homeowners, Main Street businesses, students, state budgets, extending unemployment benefits, food stamps, schools, healthcare, human services and charitable foundations.

There’s much more, and it’s fascinating.

The Power of Yin is available from Amazon and other online booksellers.