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Tag Archives: neoliberalism
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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It’s the economy, stupid
In retrospect it seems obvious, but political scientist Corey Robin argues that Bernie Sanders did so well in the 2016 presidential election because he’s the first Democrat in forever to offer a trenchant political analysis of the US economy. … Continue reading
Posted in neofeudalism, neoliberals
Tagged 2016 Clinton Campaign, Bernie Sanders, Bill Clinton, Corey Robin, Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, Hope and Change, identity politics, it's the economy stupid, liberal McCarthyism, neoliberalism, neoliberals, new Cold War, New Democrats, political economy, Russians, Shattered, Tom Perez, worsening economic conditions
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The Flight to Serfdom
Neoliberal economist Friedrich Hayek wrote The Road to Serfdom, in 1944, where he warned of totalitarian governments terrorizing their citizens. Hayek’s dystopian vision is upon us, only instead of totalitarian governments it’s all-powerful corporations like United Airlines that we … Continue reading
Posted in neofeudalism, neoliberals
Tagged A Brief History of Neoliberalism, Chicago Boys, concentration, Dr. Dao, Flight to Serfdom, Fly the Friendly Sky's, Friedrich Hayek, mergers and acquisitions, Naked Capitalism, neoliberal economic policies, neoliberalism, oligopoly, public relations, Road to Serfdom, United Airlines, University of Chicago, Yves Smith
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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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Accumulated Despair
Lately, it’s hard to write about any aspect of our shared experience without running headlong into evil. Take neoliberalism, an economic ideology that increasingly orders our lives to a terrifying degree. While neoliberalism may seem incredibly complicated, in my … Continue reading
Posted in neoliberals
Tagged accumulated despair, because markets, Case/Deaton, Democratic Party, Democrats, Donald Trump, eliminationist rhetoric, evil is easy, go-die, homelessness, ideology, Lambert, matt taibbi, mortality, Naked Capitalism, neoliberalism, no alternative, opioid crisis, Thomas Friedman, wealth polarization, Whigs
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Evil Is Easy (Part 2)
Wall Street, the too-big-to-fail-banks, and the financial industry control our lives for the worse. How did this come to pass? From the New Deal up until the 80’s finance was heavily regulated, staid, boring even. Finance was also a … Continue reading
