Tag Archives: Wall Street

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

The Pawl

Posted on February 2, 2017 by camelotkidd

The recent election and its aftermath have been instructive. Americans who supported Bernie Sanders, were castigated as naive, political utopians who failed to understand that the only option was to support Hillary, lest the evil Orange-One prevail. And now … Continue reading →

Posted in neoconservatives, neoliberals | Tagged American political system, AUMF, Barak Obama, Bill Clinton, Bush 1, Democrats, Donald Trump, drone assassinations, executive branch, George Bush, Hillary Clinton, Ian Welsh, Nazis, Nuremberg, Patriot Act, public relations, Ratchet Effect, Republicans, Ronald Reagan, sabotage, the pawl, Wall Street | Leave a comment

Behind the throne

Posted on January 31, 2017 by camelotkidd

Making sense of the Trump presidency will be challenging. It’s a new environment with all preconceived notions of the American political system vanishing. Up is down and down is up. For example, liberals, who traditionally viewed the CIA as … Continue reading →

Posted in neoconservatives, neoliberals | Tagged C. Wright Mills, CIA, Color Revolutions, deep state, deep state network, Donald Trump, figurehead, isolationist, liberal, Mike Lofgren, Mike Pence, military industrial complex, oligarchy, populist, power elite, PR, protectionist, Silicon Valley, TPP, US system of oligarchy, Wall Street, year of living dangerously | Leave a comment

The art of the possible

Posted on January 24, 2017 by camelotkidd

Politics is the art of the possible. It’s not enough for Democrats to simply oppose the policies of Donald Trump, they need to offer alternatives. And, while the marches and protests organized by the DNC and supporting NGO’s are … Continue reading →

Posted in neoliberals | Tagged Barack Obama, Bernie Sanders, bold vision, capital, Democrats, Donald Trump, fiat currency, Hillary Clinton, identity politics, John Michael Greer, Labor, Listen Liberal, MMT, neoliberal economic policies, neoliberals, New Economic Perspectives, Robert Reich, Stephanie Kelton, Thomas Frank, too big to fail, universal policies, Wall Street, wall street crash | Leave a comment

Necessary Lessons

Posted on January 4, 2017 by camelotkidd

Liberals lamenting the election of Donald Trump have not absorbed the necessary lessons. Rather than examining the policies of financial neoliberalism and the identity politics that provided neoliberalism its moral veneer, they are still blaming the Russians, or the … Continue reading →

Posted in neoliberals | Tagged Brexit, deplorable, divide and rule, DNC, Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, identity politics, Kos, liberal, Markos Moulitsas, neoliberalism, new york times, progressive neoliberalism, propaganda, Wall Street, washington post | Leave a comment

Planned economy

Posted on December 21, 2016 by camelotkidd

The election of Donald Trump has caused an outpouring of grief and many commentators are convinced that the end of the world is nigh. However, Trump didn’t get us to this place, he was just a savvy opportunist who … Continue reading →

Posted in neoconservatives, neoliberals | Tagged Allen Greenspan, Bernie Sanders, Chicago Boys, classic economics, deep state, DNC, Donald Trump, economic planning, federal reserve, financialization, Hillary Clinton, Janet Yellen, Michael Hudson, neoliberals, planned economy, shareholder value, socialism, University of Chicago, Wall Street | Leave a comment

Internal divisions

Posted on December 13, 2016 by camelotkidd

The election of Donald Trump is provoking internal divisions within the deep state, leading to some very interesting disclosures. Indeed, there is a battle being waged for influence and control in the presumptive Trump administration. It might be useful to … Continue reading →

Posted in neoconservatives, neoliberals | Tagged Al-Qaeda, Bashar al-Assad, CIA, deep state, DIA, DOD, Donald Trump, emptywheel.net, energy flows, General Michael Flynn, Gulf States, Hillary Clinton, Iran, Iraq, ISIS, John Brennan, Marcy Wheeler, Mike Lofgren, new york times, pipelineistan, Qatar, regime change, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Shia crescent, Syria, Wall Street, War on Drugs, war on terror is a hoax, Washington consensus, washington post | Leave a comment