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Pity the Billionaire
If the billionaires that are presently building hidey-holes in New Zealand want to help their cause they should bring back Noblesse oblige. Seriously, they could save a lot of money, which seems to be the raison d’être for billionaires. Notice how … Continue reading
Because Markets
Once again, there was a mass-shooting in America. This time in Las Vegas, where a 64 year old man sprayed bullets down onto concert-goers, killing 58 people and wounding 489. The statistics paint a horrible picture of gun violence in … Continue reading
Posted in neofeudalism, neoliberals
Tagged 2nd Amendment, Ayn Rand, because markets, Constitution, creating and nurturing community is a revolutionary act, federal reserve, Going Postal, gun violence, hyper-individualism, inequality, Lambert, Las Vegas shooting, Mark Ames, Naked Capitalism, neo-feudalism, neoliberalism, NRA, Ronald Reagan, Shay's Rebellion, society, The Freedom of an Armed Society, wall street crash
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Pitchforks
Since the election results came in the Hillary Clinton wing of the Democratic Party along with the corporate media have been in full cry over Russia’s supposed interference. Nick Hanauer, a Seattle-based entrepreneur, has a better explanation of why … Continue reading
Posted in neoconservatives, neofeudalism, neoliberals
Tagged 2016 presidential election, Democratic Party, deplorables, Donald Trump, economic insecurity, Hillary Clinton, inequality, it's the inequality stupid, neocons, neofeudalism, neoliberal, Nick Hanauer, pitchforks, racism, Russia
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Because Markets
Neoliberals believe that a market society is the natural and inexorable state of humankind, where Americans are not citizens so much as consumers. However, neoliberals recognize that this state of affairs will not arise naturally and must be constructed through … Continue reading
Posted in neoliberals
Tagged ACA, Affordable Care Act, flock of diseased chickens, fracking, global warming, inequality, judo, Lambert, local economy, market as a religion, Naked Capitalism, neoliberal, Obamacare, President Obama, progressive community/mass movement, Salt March, seize the market, shop till you drop, toxic algae, TPP, TTIP
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FIRE Alarm
We used to make things and employee people who were paid wages that they spent back into the economy. Finance properly allocated capital for productive ends rather than speculation and fraud. We had a productive economy that benefitted Main … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged Adam Smith, Austrian School, banana republic, debt serfdom, elite resistance, financialization, FIRE sector, inequality, infrastructure spending, John Stewart Mill, Justice Brandeis, Main street, Michael Hudson, Milton Friedman, neoliberalism, Road to Serfdom, Simon Patten, tollbooth economy, Wall Street
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Political-economy of despair
Ideology is powerful. Neoliberal economist’s have internalized Margaret Thatcher’s maxim that there’s no alternative. The market knows best. All the government can do is get out of the way and let the market do its thing. American’s must never … Continue reading
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Tagged 2016 presidential election, alternative to neoliberalism, American exceptionalism, banana republic, because markets, Bernie Sanders, economist, financialization, Gerald Friedman, go-die, government involvement in economic affairs, ideology, inequality, Margaret Thatcher, Naked Capitalism, neoliberal, neoliberalism, no alternative, public health
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