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Is that all there is?
Gazing around our world it’s clear that neoliberalism has narrowed the possibilities. Is that all there is? Massive student debts, opioid addiction, homelessness and suicides. An economy based largely on scams and fraud, that leaves the vast majority of … Continue reading
Busy Little Termites
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
We the Precariat
Here’s an observation from Lambert at Naked Capitalism that perfectly captures the precarious world that’s been created by the advance of neoliberalism. “So, Walmart spends squillions destroying public education, and then pays low wages because people can’t read or … Continue reading
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Tagged Lambert, Naked Capitalism, neofeudalism, neoliberalism, privatization, public education, Walmart
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That’s just the way it is
Divide and rule is as old as the hills. That’s just the way it is. In the wake of Trump’s surprising win over Hillary Clinton, Democrats have seized upon several explanations for the poor showing of their establishment candidate. … Continue reading
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Tagged Bill Clinton, Bruce Hornsby, class warfare, corporate media, deplorables, Donald Trump, feral elite, free trade, Hillary Clinton, immigration, maquiladoras, Mexico, Mickey Kantor, NAFTA, neoliberalism, Robert Rubin, Ron Brown, That's just the way it is, Wall Street, Walmart, Warren Christopher
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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
A Flaw in the Model
The election of Donald Trump was due, in no small part, to the abject corruption of our elite. In my last post, I examined An Economic Theory of the Criminal Law, where 7th Circuit Judge Richard Posner states that the poor require … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Greenspan, An Economic Theory of the Criminal Law, animal spirits, Ayn Rand, banana republic, Democrats, Education/Industrial/Complex, flaw in the model, John Maynard Keynes, looting, magical belief system, military industrial complex, mortgage-securitization process, Naked Capitalism, neoliberalism, neoliberals, not a bug but a feature, Republicans, Richard Posner, student-loan-securitization process, Yves Smith
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Open for Business
Neoliberalism has trumped our democratic values and institutions by substituting a cost-benefit and efficiency rational. Political discourse is framed only in entrepreneurial terms where the management of a market-economy confers a government the legitimacy to carry out domestic and … Continue reading
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Tagged Chile, criminal law, Cuba, foreign policy, Hillary Clinton, Honduras, Iran, Ken Burns, Libya, market-based values, neoliberalism, regime change, Richard Posner, Venezuala, Vietnam, war on terror, war on terror is a hoax, Wendy Brown
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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
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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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In our world, creating and nurturing community is a revolutionary act
The defining characteristic of neoliberalism is it’s use of crisis and disaster to force its market based dogma upon a captive society. In the process, neoliberalism destroys community and compassion while encouraging rampant and destructive individualism. This has been a … Continue reading
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Tagged A Brief History of Neoliberalism, A Peoples History of the United States, age of Trump, creating and nurturing community is a revolutionary act, Fear City, feral elite, Howard Zinn, Kim Phillips-Fein, Naomi Klein, neoliberalism, Never Let A Seious Crisis Go To Waste, Powell memo, resistance, shock doctrine
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