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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
Posted in neofeudalism, neoliberals
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
Posted in neoconservatives, neofeudalism, neoliberals
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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Crisis in Democracy
Our elite are busy consolidating the gains from their 30 year embrace of neoliberalism while deploying their bought and paid for government to make certain there’s nothing we can do about it. In a perverse bit of projection they describe … Continue reading
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Tagged crisis in democracy, Ellen Brown, looting, neoliberalism, public banking, Richard Posner, TISA, TPP, TTIP, Undoing the Demos, Wendy Brown
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