Tag Archives: Matt Stoller
Walk the Talk
Socialism is not just about slogans and posturing. Socialists have to govern well and in fact they have to govern much better than conservatives due to the imposed ideological stigma. And when I say “socialism”, I’m not talking about seizing … Continue reading
Rich people must not be allowed to lose money
Our political/economy is based on the concept that rich people must not be allowed to lose money. Obama foamed the runway with American homeowners so that banks and the rich people who owned them didn’t’ have to take losses in … Continue reading
There be monsters
The United States is a country defined by yawning inequality, institutional decay, and a feral elite that operates a vast criminogenic enterprise featuring corruption, rape, torture, sexual deprivation and apparently cannibalism, as evidenced by the latest Epstein drop. Indeed, the … Continue reading
Nobody wants the status quo
The vast majority of Americans find the status quo poisonous. This is the inevitable blowback from decades of misguided bipartisan policies that have destroyed our country. From never-ending invasions, regime-change ops and sanctions, to ruinous financialization, to the steady outsourcing … Continue reading
Too Big to Fail
Is AI too big to fail? The question has come to the forefront now that Wall Street and big tech firms are inflating a massive AI bubble in the hopes that it will somehow work out, but if it doesn’t, … Continue reading
McKinsey-ified
Matt Stoller has coined the perfect description for the late-stage American empire. He says we’ve become McKinsey-ified. “More fundamentally, the people who are in charge of the governing institutions in our society are simply divorced from the underlying logistics of … Continue reading
A World Turned Upside Down
When the British surrendered at Yorktown at the close of the Revolutionary War their commander, General Cornwallis, was so distraught that he feigned illness and instead had his subordinate proffer his sword to General Washington. The tenor of the … Continue reading
The language of control
In a recent interview Matt Stoller confirmed something that I long suspected. Stoller, the author of Goliath: The 100 Year war between Monopoly Power and Democracy, describes economics as the language of the aristocracy, or oligarchy, if you will. He … Continue reading
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