global financial crisis? Since the GFC hit, many Western countries have tried to nationalise banks and governments have bought majority stakes in troubled banks. There has been talk about creating 'bad' banks that are government owned to buy back toxic assets and bad debt. In recent elections, the US and has demonstrated a swing towards the pro-worker, left-wing politics. Obama has been even accused of being secretly Socialist by promoting universal public healthcare. Isn't it funny how Western countries, once promoters of free-market economics and less regulation, are now doing the same things that they are so against beforehand - like BIG government intervention, big spending, government-owned banks, reverse-privatisation, etc? Isn't this making them more like those Communist countries?