Frumious B.
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I think you'll enjoy this piece about his sonRon Paul is, weirdly, quite popular in the US
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/mar/22/rand-paul-republican-rising-star
I think you'll enjoy this piece about his sonRon Paul is, weirdly, quite popular in the US
What is incredible is that some people see Keiser, Paul etc as anti-establishment figures. Ron Paul is, weirdly, quite popular in the US (or was) with people who were into stuff like legalising cannabis etc, as an "alternative" candidate. Most of them probably weren't aware of his mad racism or his other political views.
Keiser is employed by the fuckin foreign state broadcaster of the Kremlin ffs!
No, the production company which employs him is American.
This isn't an accident, a lot of money has been poured into organisations like the Cato Institute to legitimise the radical credentials of right libertarianism. A good example of the methods they use to cultivate this image is their choice of writers for their conferences and writers for their journal. While the donors to the Cato Institute would be horrified at the idea of implementing the economic policies advocated by, to take two examples, academic Marxist James C Scott and left-liberal Glenn Greenwald, they are more than happy to pay handsomely to use their names to promote the idea that their movement is anti-establishment.
And you've got the mises website and forums, which act as a repository for stock arguments used by tedious Mr Logic basement dwelling libertarian trolls - they've basically prepared answers for everything so that credulous idiots can try and look smart on the internet.
If we shouldn't trust Max Keiser or other supposed loons, who should we trust? Evan Davis? Will Hutton?
If we shouldn't trust Max Keiser or other supposed loons, who should we trust? Evan Davis? Will Hutton?
Another one I found good (tho of course haven't finished yet) that is floating around on the net as a PDF is Milonakis and Fine, "From Political Economy to Economics", which shows how the dismal (pseudo)science of bourgeois economics divested itself of a grounding in social reality....
And if you're really, really keen reading a bit of economic history can help you see through the bullshit - Harvey's a brief history of neoliberalism, Kliman's The Failure of Capitalist Production and Paul Mattick's Business as Usual are great.
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What is incredible is that some people see Keiser, Paul etc as anti-establishment figures. Ron Paul is, weirdly, quite popular in the US (or was) with people who were into stuff like legalising cannabis etc, as an "alternative" candidate. Most of them probably weren't aware of his mad racism or his other political views.
Keiser is employed by the fuckin foreign state broadcaster of the Kremlin ffs!
Paul Mason is about the best in the mainstream
Interesting - he tweeted his view on the Money Week 'end of Britain' forecast: "re MoneyWeek. They are wrong on one thing: there is exit route = dump globalisation as in 1931-33. Last one out loses bigtime" It's a nice snappy answer, but I don't understand it. Is he saying that Money Week is right (i.e. that all our banks will be made insolvent by rising interest rates) unless we start doing all the shit jobs which we have outsourced? I suppose that would give us full employment and lower living standards and a platform for growth.
I was just wondering if you can see any irony in this
Why would anyone see irony in that???
I dont know really, at first glance it sounded conspiriloony. Perhaps the RT folks are members of the KGB, who knows?
It's not conspiraloonery at all - Russia Today is the Russian state broadcaster. This is a demonstrable fact.
Feel free to demonstrate then. Wiki says autonomous and non profit, it could be wrong...
Not exactly cast iron but hey, who cares
EDIT
Sorry Columbia Journal Review. I am sure that you are at least in-part credible
Creation of Russia Today was a part of larger effort by the Kremlin intended to improve the image of Russia abroad.[15] RT was conceived by former media minister Mikhail Lesin,[16] and Vladimir Putin’s press spokesperson Aleksei Gromov[17]
Probably more reliable than wikipedia - and even in the wiki article you linked to it says this:
I haven't linked to anything of the sort.
Apologies - the wiki page you referred to then. Not that it makes any difference to the point.
Keiser is employed by the fuckin foreign state broadcaster of the Kremlin ffs!
Are you for real? Do you know what even 1% on every pound in circulation adds up to per year?These fruitbats think that bankers can just create money to make them (or at least their banks) rich, when in reality all they make is the interest, and even that only if the money is repaid.
I agree with pretty much all of that. But that's just the system doing what the system does and they're trying to say that it's when the money is created that the theft takes place, when it's through interest, investments, state bail-outs etc that they really get fat, not through magicking money out of thin air.