Tag Archives: Matt Stoller

McKinsey-ified

Posted on September 3, 2021 by camelotkidd

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 →

Posted in deep state, feral elite, neoconservatives, propaganda | Tagged corporate media, deep state, Donald Trump, Iran, Israel, Matt Stoller, propaganda | Leave a comment

A World Turned Upside Down

Posted on March 20, 2020 by camelotkidd

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 →

Posted in neoliberalism, propaganda | Tagged Coronavirus, corporate media, makers and takers, Matt Stoller, Mitt Romney, neoliberalism, pandemic, propaganda, Wall Street | Leave a comment

The language of control

Posted on January 25, 2020 by camelotkidd

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 →

Posted in feral elite, neoliberalism | Tagged Davos, Goliath, human capital, masters of the universe, Matt Stoller, neoliberalism, precarity, Wendy Brown | Leave a comment

Market Failure

Posted on November 9, 2019 by camelotkidd

I never though I would feel nostalgic for the Cold War but in retrospect it’s apparent that the contest between the two superpowers over which system delivered more comfort, freedom, and happiness to its citizens was a golden era. … Continue reading →

Posted in feral elite, neoliberalism, propaganda | Tagged Barak Obama, Cold War, George W. Bush, Goliath, Matt Stoller, monopolies, neoliberalism, There is no Alternative, wall street crash | Leave a comment

The Colossus

Posted on November 22, 2018 by camelotkidd

Amazon has become the most powerful economic actor, a veritable colossus astride our Republic. The recent reports about the ubiquitous online merchant’s search for a new headquarters only reinforce this perception. After a long process, Amazon finally announced that it … Continue reading →

Posted in neofeudalism, neoliberals, propaganda | Tagged Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Amazon, antitrust, CIA, deaths of despair, Donald Trump, East India Company, fascism, Jeff Bezos, Matt Stoller, monopoly, savage race to the bottom, Standard Oil, washington post | Leave a comment

Ten Years After

Posted on September 20, 2018 by camelotkidd

Ten years ago the US stock market tanked, and for the next several weeks financial markets were a cluster-fuck of panic and chaos. Americans were frightened of what was happening in the economy. The real estate market had collapsed. Venerable Wall … Continue reading →

Posted in neoliberals, neofeudalism, propaganda | Tagged Matt Stoller, Michael Hudson, Too Big to Jail, matt taibbi, Wall Street, Bill Black, Henry Paulson, Ben Bernanke, Timothy Geithner, Donald Trump, wall street crash, Barak Obama | Leave a comment

Concentrated

Posted on June 26, 2017 by camelotkidd

Amazon’s takeover of Whole Foods has raised alarms about economic concentration. No corporation epitomizes monopoly better than Amazon, who’s business model is predicated on losing money with their super-low prices in order to capture market share. Their dominant position then … Continue reading →

Posted in neofeudalism, neoliberals | Tagged 1984, Amazon, Barak Obama, Bill Clinton, corporate media, corporate propaganda, corporations, Democratic Party, Democrats, Donald Trump, economic concentration, George Orwell, high-tech, Jeff Bezos, libertarians, Listen Liberal, Matt Stoller, monopolies, neofeudal, neoliberal, new economy, political/economy, rent seeking, Silicon Valley, Thomas Frank, washington post, Whole Foods | Leave a comment

A Tale of Two Countries

Posted on May 2, 2017 by camelotkidd

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…” When Charles Dickens wrote the opening lines of A Tale of Two Cities it was in reference to London and Paris during the French Revolution, but his epochal depiction … Continue reading →

Posted in neofeudalism, neoliberals | Tagged A Tale of Two Cities, best of times, Charles Dickens, class warfare, Clusterfuck Nation, corruption, Democratic Party, James Howard Kunstler, Matt Stoller, neo-feudalism, neo-liberalism, opioid crisis, PR, President Obama, technocratic elite, technocratic liberalism, Wall Street, worst of times | Leave a comment

“Corporations are people, my friend,”

Posted on February 12, 2015 by camelotkidd

Political/economy is who gets what, and who pays the price. We forget this adage at our own peril. The wealthy and the corporations they own have captured our government and are imposing on us the policies that benefit them. Contrary … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged antitrust, class warfare, corporations are people my friend, Matt Stoller, Mitt Romney, monopolies, neoliberal, political/economy, shareholder value | Leave a comment

Greedy/Ideology

Posted on September 22, 2014 by camelotkidd

“We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality—judiciously, as you will—we’ll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out. … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Akerlof and Romer, censorship, empire, greedy/ideology, Kansas, Karl Rove, looting, Matt Stoller, Naked Capitalism, propaganda, Thomas Frank, Tom Engelhardt, Yves Smith | Leave a comment