Can Stephen King Save the Economy?

Earlier this evening, I was reading in the Independent about the banking crisis in Iceland.  Why Iceland?  Because apparently Russia may be offering Iceland a bailout (does that mean Russia will own Iceland?).  That was weird enough, but then I saw in the sidebar the following headline:  “Stephen King: Roosevelt’s lesson… a decisive act to break the psychology of depression“.

I love Stephen King.  I clicked on this headline immediately.

Unfortunately, it’s not that Stephen KIng.  It’s Stephen King, U.K.-based managing director of economics at HSBC.  If I were a U.K.-based reader, I’d probably have known that.  It’s a good article, and he seems like a worthy fellow.  He’s actually been worried about the economy for quite a while.

I really would be interested in hearing what horror and suspense author Stephen King thinks about the economy, too.  I’m convinced that our economy needs fundamental changes, and I don’t think real change is going to come from people who are inside the current corporate and financial systems, or who are currently in the government.  I think it will have to come from creative types who aren’t part of the system now, and it will probably have to come from the bottom up, instead of from the top down.

Besides, Stephen King is the guy who came up with Pennywise, right?  So he must know something about money.