Tag Archives: infrastructure spending

FIRE Alarm

Posted on May 17, 2016 by camelotkidd

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 Street … 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 | Leave a comment

Blood On Their Hands

Posted on May 22, 2015 by camelotkidd

Republicans who voted to cut funding to Amtrak in the wake of the fatal crash have blood on their hands. These types of train crashes happen because cuts to funding translate into cuts to maintenance, leading to accidents that kill … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Amtrack, conservatives, ideology, infrastructure spending, Koch brothers, libertarians, mass transportation, political economy, tax cuts, think tanks, timorous media | 1 Comment

Dig it

Posted on November 10, 2014 by camelotkidd

Reading Bloomberg’s article about how the GOP, when it takes control of the Senate, should embrace infrastructure spending, made me laugh. Just the language, with its nod towards hippy vernacular, was priceless. “Dig, if you will, a picture: Republicans, basking … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged advertising, Hope and Change, infrastructure spending, Lambert, Little Timmy, Naked Capitalism, neoliberalism, Wall Street | Leave a comment

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