Tag Archives: Wall Street

This is why we can’t have nice things

Posted on September 24, 2021 by camelotkidd

The New York Times, with its insufferable class and elite bias, recently pondered economic policy–“How House Dems Plan to Raise $2.9 T” Gee, I wonder how they will get the money? Maybe they can find some spare change under the … Continue reading →

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Pattern Recognition

Posted on July 16, 2021 by camelotkidd

The American empire has not become kinder and gentler just because they are flying the rainbow or BLM flags at our embassy’s. Or because there is now a lesbian at the helm of the CIA directing drone strikes. Or because … Continue reading →

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Oh, So Super

Posted on April 2, 2021 by camelotkidd

Have you wondered why US foreign policy never seems to change irrespective of which candidate or party resides in the White House? Or why it seems that the route to riches in America is through looting? Or why it seems … Continue reading →

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Hedge Fund Nation

Posted on February 12, 2021 by camelotkidd

It has become apparent that we are ruled by economic sociopaths, more commonly known as hedge funds. This dynamic has not gone unnoticed. A new survey suggests the GameStop saga has become a very real lightning rod for anti–Wall Street sentiment. In … Continue reading →

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Life on the Left

Posted on December 12, 2020 by camelotkidd

I’ve criticized liberalism enough that I should probably unpack my version of the Left. Hint–it’s not communism. Marx, as an economist was a trenchant and amazingly accurate critic of capitalism but his blueprint for utopia, at least as enacted by … Continue reading →

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Enclosure

Posted on September 23, 2020 by camelotkidd

  Capitalism requires the enclosure of the commons. The reasons are twofold. The first is straightforward primitive accumulation, whereby the commons (land, and natural resources) are seized through force. This process is essential to the creation of capitalist surplus, or … Continue reading →

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Opaque

Posted on July 16, 2020 by camelotkidd

I’m re-reading Matt Taibbi’s, Hate Inc., and enjoying it even more than the first time. Written as an update to the classic–Manufacturing Consent–it’s a great primer on media malfeasance and how we came to have a con-man as our president. … Continue reading →

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Financial Feudalism

Posted on March 27, 2020 by camelotkidd

  The Wall Street Crash of 2008, the bailout, and the Fed’s Quantitative Easing (QE) intensified inequality in America. And now they’re getting the band back together. Behind all the focus on the human toll of the pandemic there are quiet … Continue reading →

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A World Turned Upside Down

Posted on March 20, 2020 by camelotkidd

  When the British surrendered at Yorktown at the close of the Revolutionary War their commander, General Cornwallis, was so distraught that he feigned illness and instead had his subordinate proffer his sword to General Washington. The tenor of the … Continue reading →

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Katrina Moment

Posted on March 13, 2020 by camelotkidd

  The Coronavirus appears to be Trump’s Katrina moment, where the pandemic is exposing the rank incompetence of his administration. If you’ll recall from the way-back machine, in 2005, Hurricane Katrina demonstrated that the Bush Administration’s neoconservative ideology was a serious … Continue reading →

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