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Looters
The US is enduring late-stage capitalism where it’s more profitable to loot rather than to create or build. Even worse, the looters are celebrated as “makers” rather than the takers they obviously are. Under Trump’s benevolent gaze, the financiers that … Continue reading
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Tagged Bain Capital, Donald Trump, Mitt Romney, neoliberalism, private-equity, propaganda, Wall Street
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Too Big to Fail
Is AI too big to fail? The question has come to the forefront now that Wall Street and big tech firms are inflating a massive AI bubble in the hopes that it will somehow work out, but if it doesn’t, … Continue reading
Posted in deep state, feral elite, neoliberalism, propaganda
Tagged China, Donald Trump, Gary Marcus, Matt Stoller, OpenAI, Silicon Valley, Wall Street
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How They Operate
A perfect world for the banksters and tech-bros would be where all the profits accrue to them while all the costs fall on the society they claim doesn’t exist. Unfortunately, that’s kinda where we are at. Even worse, this unbearable … Continue reading
Posted in feral elite, neofeudalism, neoliberalism
Tagged neoliberalism, oligarchy, plutocracy, Silicon Valley, Wall Street
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Everywhere is war
It certainly doesn’t appear possible for the US to have a non-belligerent foreign policy. Instead, the US aspires to be Techno-Sparta, where a climate of fear, hostility and end-of-times preparation seems to have overtaken US politicians, elites and the corporate media. … Continue reading
No Crying in the Casino
I had an epiphany watching the instructor for my continuing education class delineate all the expenses a small business incurs in the course of operation. It occurred to me that the US tax base has been shifted from corporations, banks … Continue reading
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Tagged Donald Trump, neoliberalism, propaganda, Wall Street
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Alternatives
What if voting for Democrats to confront Trumpism doesn’t work? I’m sick of constantly being implored to vote harder but nothing seems to change. The Democrats promise reform yet when in office they serve us up the same menu of … Continue reading
Oligarchy
The problem with oligarchy is the capriciousness. Under a system of laws, there’s a known quality of acceptable behavior, while with oligarchy everything can change in an instant, as demonstrated with the Trump/Musk dust-up. The problem with Musk is not … Continue reading
Posted in anti-imperialism, feral elite, neoliberalism, propaganda
Tagged Alex Karp, Donald Trump, Elon Musk, neoliberalism, Palantir, Wall Street
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Apostasy
To be an intellectual is to be an apostate. In our neoliberal milieu, where everything has been commodified, intellectual thought, discourse and opinion has lost any of the verve that makes it precious and has thus become debased. Therefore, intellectualism … Continue reading
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Tagged Donald Trump, Larry Summers, Michael Hudson, neoliberalism, Wall Street
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Into the Fire
Vastly unequal empires never end well. In his 2017 book The Great Leveler, Stanford historian Walter Scheidel, demonstrates how extreme inequality has been “resolved” throughout history. Unfortunately, Scheidel found that so far the only thing that has undone such inequality—the only … Continue reading
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Tagged Donald Trump, inequality, Luigi Mangione, neoliberalism, Wall Street
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Pyrrhic
The billionaires who own our country hated the New Deal and they set out to undo it. They won and here we are. Over the past 47 years, according to the Rand Corporation, $50 Trillion in wealth has been redistributed … Continue reading
Posted in anti-imperialism, deep state, feral elite, neoliberalism
Tagged Donald Trump, neoliberalism, tariffs, Wall Street
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