Tag Archives: Wall Street

That’s just the way it is

Posted on May 2, 2018 by camelotkidd

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 →

Posted in neofeudalism, neoliberals | 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 | Leave a comment

Deep State–Über Alles

Posted on February 21, 2018 by camelotkidd

In light of the non-stop yammering about Russian meddling in our precious democracy, it’s time to revisit the concept of an American deep state. Liberal commentators have heaped derision on the term–deep state, depicting it as Trump supporters protecting … Continue reading →

Posted in neoconservatives | Tagged "German Counterinsurgency Revisited", Allan Dulles, CIA, counterinsurgency, deep state, Douglas Valentine, Einsatzgruppen, Federalist Papers, Hitler, John Foster Dulles, John Jay, Mussolini, Nazis, Prescott Bush, Russia-gate, Russian meddling, The Brothers, The CIA As Organized Crime, The Phoenix Program, The Silver Lining, Vietnam war, Wall Street, WWII | Leave a comment

Won’t end well

Posted on February 16, 2018 by camelotkidd

Lately, I’ve detected a certain sense of malaise among my fellow citizens. In my opinion, it’s long been apparent that this won’t end well. Take the stock market, the indicator that our elite reliably depict as proof of the … Continue reading →

Posted in neofeudalism | Tagged Bill Clinton, Case/Deaton, Democratic Party, extreme poverty, opioid crisis, President Reagan, Republican Party, school shootings, stock market, suicide, Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet, Wall Street, wall street crash, war on labor, won't end well, Yasha Levine | Leave a comment

Race and Class

Posted on September 18, 2017 by camelotkidd

How, in a nation based on slavery and genocide, did a black man like Obama get elected president? That’s the question I’m left with after reading Ta-Nehisi-Coates masterful essay on race entitled–The First White President. Coates central assertion is … Continue reading →

Posted in neoconservatives, neofeudalism, neoliberals | Tagged Barak Obama, bi-partisan elite, class, class-war, co-opting left-wing policies, Confidence Men, Donald Trump, George Bush, My administration is the only thing between you and the pitchforks, neoconservatives, neoliberalism, oligarchy, race, Ron Suskind, status quo, Ta-Nehisi-Coates, The First White President, The Powell Memo, US empire, Wall Street | Leave a comment

A Tale of Two Countries

Posted on May 2, 2017 by camelotkidd

“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 | Leave a comment

Evil Is Easy (Part 2)

Posted on March 23, 2017 by camelotkidd

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 →

Posted in neoliberals | Tagged Allen Greenspan, Chicago Boys, democracy equated with capitalism, evil is easy, federal reserve, financial industry, greed, homelessness, Killing the Host, Michael Hudson, neoliberalism, President Obama, President Reagan, Wall Street | Leave a comment

The submerged state

Posted on February 7, 2017 by camelotkidd

If the Democrats ever want to win another election they need to abandon neoliberalism. Post-Watergate Democrats turned their backs on the central tenet of the New Deal–that government should help Americans. In the process, they quit representing unions and … Continue reading →

Posted in neoliberals | Tagged ACA, Cornell, corporate funding, Democrats, financialization, free trade, Les Leopold, Naked Capitalism, Nancy Pelosi, neoliberalism, One Market Under God, other corporate party, President Obama, Submerged State, Suzanne Mettler, Thomas Frank, Wall Street | Leave a comment

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That’s just the way it is

Deep State–Über Alles

Won’t end well

Race and Class

A Tale of Two Countries

Evil Is Easy (Part 2)

The submerged state

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