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Commentary / capitalism, democracy, deregulation, Reagan /

Capitalism and Democracy: An Expansion on My Rant

April 10, 2009

Having already been bashed, unfairly, for being ‘anti-capitalist’ I feel I should expand on my previous post. Before I begin, here’s a post at Simon Johnson’s blog to demonstrate that I am far from alone: The Economy and Popular Democracy – The Baseline Scenario So here’s the way I look at this: First, I happen […]

Economics / capitalism, Karl Marx /

Capitalists Can Bug Me – I Admit It!

April 10, 2009

As a committed child of the working classes, or more accurately a grandchild, nothing is more designed to get my back up than a conversation with an equally committed capitalist. Now, having traveled through ‘B’ school and the banking industry for many years I have nothing against capitalism: I believe it to be the best […]

Economics / B. of A., banking, Citibank, Geithner, GM, Ken Lewis, Paul Krugman, Reagan, Simon Johnson /

The Big Problem

April 10, 2009

Let’s allow the optimists some fun for a while: all the cable TV channels and now the Wall Street Journal are agog with predictions of an end to this recession as early as this Fall. As I have said before I don’t believe that yet – the upbeat data is just too fragile and limited […]

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