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Commentary, Politics / capital, Chateaubriand, democracy, labor, Piketty, plutocracy, unemployment, wages /

Memoirs from Beyond the Tomb

July 14, 2015

Right at the end of his book called “Memoirs from Beyond the Tomb” Chateaubriand gives us a remarkable insight into our current troubles. I wonder whether we will solve them or whether we will simply write an addendum to his book. He asks, for instance: “Is it possible for a political system to subsist, in […]

Commentary, Economics / austerity, democracy, Euro, Germany, Greece, plutocracy /

Greece 2

July 13, 2015

Well so much for that. Where do I begin? The so-called deal announced yesterday achieves none of its objectives. The written objectives that is. The unwritten ones we will get to in a moment. There is no doubt in my mind that the Greek economy suffers from a surfeit of inefficiencies. It cannot sustain the […]

Economics, Politics / austerity, banking, capitalism, democracy, Euro, GDP, Greece, plutocracy /

Greece

July 7, 2015

So we reach the end. Good. Let democracy and popular government prevail. The entire Euro project was conceived by a small group of elitist technocrats, then foisted on national peoples often without any ability on the part of the people to veto it. The crisis in Europe is an echo of the crisis here in the US. […]

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