Tag Archives: Wall Street

Existential Threat

Posted on February 28, 2020 by camelotkidd

Every economy is planned. The essential political question is who gets to do the planning. Likewise, every economy is a mix between state and private actors. After 40 plus years of neoliberal “reforms”, the dominant actors in the US are … Continue reading →

Posted in feral elite, neoliberalism | Tagged Bernie Sanders, corporate media, DNC, finance, neoliberalism, Wall Street | Leave a comment

Socialism for thee but not for me

Posted on February 20, 2019 by camelotkidd

Trump appears to have found the theme for his 2020 presidential campaign–Socialism is bad!!! “We are alarmed by the new calls to adopt socialism in our country,” said President Donald Trump in his State of the Union address. “Tonight, … Continue reading →

Posted in neofeudalism, neoliberals, propaganda | Tagged 2020 election, corporate socialism, Donald Trump, plutocracy, socialism, Wall Street, wall street crash | Leave a comment

PayGo

Posted on January 17, 2019 by camelotkidd

PayGo is bad economics and bad politics, but naturally it was the first order of business for the newly elected Democratic Speaker of the House–Nancy Pelosi. Despite resistance from progressive Democrats, the House rules package for the 116th Congress will … Continue reading →

Posted in neofeudalism, neoliberals, propaganda | Tagged Barak Obama, Brexit, Donald Trump, financialization, Hillary Clinton, Killing the Host, Michael Hudson, Milton Friedman, MMT, Nancy Pelosi, neoliberalism, Pay-Go, University of Chicago, Wall Street, Yellow Vests | Leave a comment

Ten Years After

Posted on September 20, 2018 by camelotkidd

Ten years ago the US stock market tanked, and for the next several weeks financial markets were a cluster-fuck of panic and chaos. Americans were frightened of what was happening in the economy. The real estate market had collapsed. Venerable Wall … Continue reading →

Posted in neofeudalism, neoliberals, propaganda | Tagged Barak Obama, Ben Bernanke, Bill Black, Donald Trump, Henry Paulson, Matt Stoller, matt taibbi, Michael Hudson, Timothy Geithner, Too Big to Jail, Wall Street, wall street crash | Leave a comment

Double-Truth

Posted on July 12, 2018 by camelotkidd

I know it’s hard to turn away from the ongoing dumpster fire that is the Trump administration but it’s imperative to understand how we got here. Can you say neoliberalism? The neoliberals first gathered at Mont Pelerin, circa 1947, in … Continue reading →

Posted in neofeudalism, neoliberals, propaganda | Tagged agnotology, Barak Obama, Donald Trump, double truth, inverted totalitarianism, Mont Pelerin Society, neoliberal thought collective, neoliberalism, neoliberals, Never Let A Seious Crisis Go To Waste, Philip Mirowski, Wall Street, wall street crash | Leave a comment

Mittens ‘R’ Us

Posted on June 27, 2018 by camelotkidd

I wrote a letter to the editor of the local newspaper expressing my surprise that they haven’t connected the bankruptcy of Toys ‘R’ Us with Mitt Romney, the man who’s poised to become our next senator. Mittens, as I like to … Continue reading →

Posted in neofeudalism, neoliberals | Tagged Barak Obama, Donald Trump, Edward Herman, Hope and Change, looting, Manufacturing Consent, Mitt Romney, Noam Chomsky, Salt Lake Tribune, Toys 'R' Us, Utah, Wall Street, wall street crash | Leave a comment

Is that all there is?

Posted on June 14, 2018 by camelotkidd

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 →

Posted in neofeudalism, neoliberals | Tagged 2016 election, Bain Capital, culture of fraud, Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, neoliberal economic policies, neoliberalism, precariat, Silicon Valley, sociopathic elite, Wall Street, wall street crash | Leave a comment

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