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The New York Times’ Economic Wet-Dream. Almost Marx comments

‘The Masters of The Universe’ and their Neo-Liberal Swindle has destroyed  both the Middle & Lowers Classes in America! But at The New York Times all is well! Merry Christmas, Almost Marx Merry Christmas, Almost Marx

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munchau@eurointelligence.com on ‘The Crisis of Modern Liberalism’. Almost Marx comments

Headline: The crisis of modern liberalism is down to market forces Sub-headline: Liberals are often led astray by their addiction to macroeconomic variables such as GDP Mr. Münchau’s  rhetorical/political  landscape is teeming with ideas, concepts and actors: Wolfgang Kartte : … Continue reading

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@FT: Top Envoy resigns

The Party of War is made up of Republicans and New Democrats: the prospect of something like dismantling just a portion of the military edifice erected to fight ‘The War on Terror’ or just call it ‘America’s Thirty Years War’ … Continue reading

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Myra Breckenridge comments on Niall Ferguson’s Year End Polemic!

From the Versailles Grand Dining Room of the Hoover Institution, comes this compelling readable  Year End Roundup from the Niall Ferguson, some irresistible  highlights, the first is ,well , a nonpareil of the trivial, yet signifies one of the many … Continue reading

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Andy Divine’s well of mendacity, episode MMMMCVII: The Establishment is at fault! Old Socialist comments

Here are the first two paragraphs of Mr. Divine’s latest political encyclical titled ‘The Establishment Will Never Say No to a War’ The question before us is a relatively simple one: What would be the criteria for removing our remaining … Continue reading

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@JananGanesh ‘s pressing question has already been answered. American Writer comments

Headline: Where is San Francisco’s Bonfire of the Vanities? Sub-headline: The city is home to the biggest story in US commerce — yet the tech boom does not yet have its Tom Wolfe Who but feuilletonist Janan Ganesh would celebrate … Continue reading

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Joergen Oerstroem Moeller on How to Save Democracies. Old Socialist scoffs!

Headline:Democracies Are Fighting for Their Lives Sub-headline: Can they save themselves? The Headline writers of National Interest cultivate hysteria with their headline and sub-headline. Like Mr. Fukuyama before him,  Mr. Moeller frames his polemic with a paraphrase from a philosopher , … Continue reading

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@Sifill_LDF riffs on a theme from the @NYT. Political Observer comments

Voter Suppression was institutionalized by Shelby County v. Holder, cobbled together by the Roberts/Scalia duo of Neo-Confederate/Originalists, under the rubric of ‘things have changed’ a jurisprudental metaphor, eviscerated by Ginsberg in her empirically based   defense of  the ‘pre-clearance clause‘. … Continue reading

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@tylercowen: Macron is ‘The Wrong Man’!Old Socialist comments on this map of misreadings

When you think that America’s ‘Academic Intellectual Class’, has hit rock- bottom- think of ‘The Coddling of the American Mind’ , a more sophisticated version of what that officious Neo-Con, not to speak of self-appointed wise Platonic Guardian,  Alan Bloom … Continue reading

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At The Financial Time: On Draghi & Quantitative Easing. Old Socialist comments

Here is a helpful link to a Financial Times Lexicon  on Quantitative Easing and a portion of that entry: Central banks normally set the price of money using official interest rates to regulate the economy. These interest rates radiate out … Continue reading

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