Tag Archives: Milton Friedman

Market Mechanisms

Posted on October 25, 2024 by camelotkidd

I’m fascinated by ideas and ideologies and none have animated me quite like the ideology of neoliberalism with its mantra that there’s “no alternative.” This bold pronouncement, along with its twin, that “there is no society,” always seemed like a … Continue reading →

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Freedom

Posted on April 14, 2023 by camelotkidd

Lambert at Naked Capitalism has a neoliberalism formulation: 1) Because Markets 2) Go die, that has always appealed to me for the conciseness. Let’s tease out some more of the political and social implications of such an explanation. The dominant … Continue reading →

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Strange Bedfellows

Posted on May 23, 2019 by camelotkidd

The New Deal, which did much to equalize and humanize American capitalism, has always been despised by the plutocracy that owns our country. The reasons for this hatred were largely about power and control as outlined in the Political Aspects … Continue reading →

Posted in neoliberals | Tagged Marco Rubio, Michael Kalacki, Milton Friedman, Mont Pelerin Society, neoliberalism, New Deal, Political Aspects of Full Employment, shareholder capitalism | Leave a comment

Market Stalinism

Posted on April 11, 2019 by camelotkidd

I’ve come to believe that Friedrich von Hayek was projecting when he claimed that socialism would usher in The Road to Serfdom, when in reality the road to serfdom has been paved by 21st century capitalism as embodied and … Continue reading →

Posted in neofeudalism, neoliberals | Tagged Amazon, Boston Tea Party, Friedrich von Hayek, Ludwig von Mises, Mark Fisher, Milton Friedman, monopolies, Mont Pelerin Society, neoliberalism, precariat | Leave a comment

PayGo

Posted on January 17, 2019 by camelotkidd

PayGo is bad economics and bad politics, but naturally it was the first order of business for the newly elected Democratic Speaker of the House–Nancy Pelosi. Despite resistance from progressive Democrats, the House rules package for the 116th Congress will … Continue reading →

Posted in neofeudalism, neoliberals, propaganda | Tagged Barak Obama, Brexit, Donald Trump, financialization, Hillary Clinton, Killing the Host, Michael Hudson, Milton Friedman, MMT, Nancy Pelosi, neoliberalism, Pay-Go, University of Chicago, Wall Street, Yellow Vests | Leave a comment

Busy Little Termites

Posted on May 30, 2018 by camelotkidd

I find it perversely amusing that while doing good is so damn hard, doing evil is easy. Doing evil is especially easy in the service of wealth and power. Take neoliberalism, a shape-shifting ideology so nefarious that its proponents … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged because markets, busy little termites, desegregation, evil is easy, James Buchanan, market dystopia, Milton Friedman, neoliberal economic policies, neoliberalism, New Deal, Philip Mirowski | Leave a comment

Making the connection

Posted on May 23, 2018 by camelotkidd

Gina Haspel has been confirmed as America’s new CIA director. Now that we have a torturer in charge of our premier intelligence agency it’s appropriate to make the connection between the economic and foreign policies of the US empire. Neoliberalism … Continue reading →

Posted in neoconservatives, neofeudalism, neoliberals | Tagged Chile, CIA, CIA as organized crime, Cold War, Democratic Party, Douglas Valentine, Gina Haspel, making the connection, Milton Friedman, Naomi Klein, neoconservative foreign policies, neoliberal economic policies, Republican Party, The Shock Doctrine, torture, war on terror | Leave a comment

Don’t mourn, organize

Posted on November 15, 2016 by camelotkidd

Trump is going to end the world, as we know it. Or, something. Liberals are always more energized and pugilistic when a Republican president gains power. My biggest peeve with liberals, is that they were aghast at the behavior … Continue reading →

Posted in neoconservatives, neoliberals | Tagged Big-Bill Haywood, Democratic Party, Democrats, don't mourn, Donald Trump, economic insecurity, Hillary Clinton, hypocritical liberals, Joe Hill, Margaret Mead, Milton Friedman, moral consistency, movement conservatives, Naked Capitalism, neoliberal economic policies, neoliberalism, organize, Republicans | Leave a comment

Live, Love, Laugh

Posted on July 20, 2016 by camelotkidd

My friends ask me how I stay happy knowing the things I write about. That’s easy. No matter how bad things are, people go on with their lives, they laugh, make love and carry on the best they can. … Continue reading →

Posted in neoconservatives, neoliberals | Tagged 9/11 Report, baked in, extreme sports, France, Milton Friedman, modern conservative movement, mountain biking, neoconservative foreign policies, neoliberal economic policies, neoliberalism, Nice, overtaken by events, progressive community/mass movement, shit show, skiing, skydiving, Turkey | Leave a comment

God’s been drinking

Posted on June 5, 2016 by camelotkidd

So much evil in this world is projected as good. Some of the best writer/propagandists have taken on this task of conflating the Satanic with the sacred. Take Max Weber, who depicted God’s divine intentions throughout the Industrial Revolution … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Christianity, Fredrick von Hayek, Garden of Eden, IMF, Industrial Revolution, Jesus Christ, Ludwig von Mises, max weber, Milton Friedman, neo-liberalism, projection, protestant work ethic, Road to Serfdom, the enclosure acts, Thomas Friedman, welfare state | Leave a comment