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Tag Archives: neo-feudalism
Financial Feudalism
The Wall Street Crash of 2008, the bailout, and the Fed’s Quantitative Easing (QE) intensified inequality in America. And now they’re getting the band back together. Behind all the focus on the human toll of the pandemic there are quiet … Continue reading
Posted in feral elite, neofeudalism
Tagged bailout, Coronavirus, federal reserve, feral elite, financialization, Michael Hudson, neo-feudalism, Wall Street
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Junk Economics
Over the weekend, the US Senate passed the most drastic rewrite of America’s tax system since the Reagan administration, which is expected to mostly benefit the wealthiest Americans. This new tax cut legislation should provide further proof that the United … 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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We Live in a Political World
Why hasn’t a left-wing populist party arisen in the US in the wake of the Wall Street crash and bail-out by the government? Why have labor unions, environmentalists, racial and ethnic minorities not created an alternative to the fully … Continue reading
Posted in neofeudalism, neoliberals
Tagged banana republic, Bernie Sanders, Bob Dylan, class warfare, David Sirota, Democratic Party, Democrats, Donald Trump, economic populism, financial reform, financialization, Great Britain, Grenfell Tower fire, identity politics, labor party, Margaret Thatcher, mass shootings, neo-feudalism, neoliberalism, plutocracy, Republicans, There is no Alternative, Washington Generals, we live in a political world
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A Tale of Two Countries
“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
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N is for Neofeudalism
Everything that was old is new again. Take feudalism, it’s making a comeback. The US economy is trending towards wage bondage and economic polarization, with an all-American debt peonage that I’ve come to call neofeudalism. Heterodox economist Michael Hudson explains how … Continue reading
Posted in neoconservatives, neofeudalism, neoliberals
Tagged A Brief History of Neoliberalism, austerity, bankers, bankers in orange jumpsuits, banksters, bondholders, debt, debt serfdom, dystopian, financialization, J is For Junk Economics, Michael Hudson, Middle-Ages, neo-feudalism, neoliberalism, privatization, science fiction, serfs, serfs up, starving the beast
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Why we can’t have nice stuff
We’ve been talking a lot about foreign policy lately, but why does US foreign policy matter to the American public? It matters because our elite are committed to empire. Empire is their political economy. Empire benefits them. Us, not so … Continue reading
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Tagged Chris Hedges, deep state, empire, military industrial complex, neo-feudalism, Noam Chomsky
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The Empire Strikes Back–Continued…
The recent election was quite illuminating in understanding neo-feudalism. There’s always been a tension inherent in the vision of America democracy. On one hand are the Jeffersonians who see democracy as the natural trajectory. On the other hand, are the … Continue reading
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Tagged Crisis of Democracy, democracy, Hamilton, Jefferson, Mitt Romney, mob rule, neo-feudalism, New Deal, Scalia, Voting Rights Act
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The Empire Strikes Back
I discuss neo-feudalism at CK a fair amount. Okay, a lot. Going forward, I want to explore how Neo-feudalism came to be our reality. My decades of research have convinced me that this was no accident; shaped by benign, external forces. … Continue reading
