No, that wasn't written by Bill Black.
Rather, it's the final output from recently demised Alexander Cockburn - and, incidentally, highly recommended (personally) by a pre-eminent chronicler of the MICC and Pentagon corruption.
A Road Trip Through Political Scandal, Corruption and American Culture
Is that what "No Child Left Behind" was really all about? Creating a Gresham's dynamic, where the Keating-5 could be free to become the Cheating-450, and then the Keeping-1%?
"Everyone's doing it!" The new motto for the GOP AND DNP alike.
Even a return to Glass-Steagall wouldn't be enough. We need to set our sights high enough to survive a context ol' Mr. Glass couldn't have imagined the extent of. We need a Black-Cockburn Act, to once again impose minimal separation of graft and state.
ps: How long will it take us to recover the storehouse of Middle Class resiliency ... if we can do it at all?
