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Showing posts with label Thatcherism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Thatcherism. Show all posts
Sunday, July 9, 2017

Chris Dillow — The crisis of positive-sum capitalism

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Zero-sum capitalism results in a falling rate of profit that eventually lowers investment and productivity. Neoliberalism is zero-sum capi...
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Saturday, December 24, 2016

James Kwak — Kudlow and Economics in the Trump Administration

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Title should be Larry Kudow and economism. I prefer G. W. H. Bush's "voodoo economics." It seems some people never l...
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Friday, December 9, 2016

Fabius Maximus — Today’s news shows America’s dark future. It’s time to act, not just watch.

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I would elaborate on "dark future" as a dialectical clash of incompatible ideologies that is headed toward conflict to determine...
Sunday, August 28, 2016

Jon Ashworth — Every day, Theresa May's mask slips a little further

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The news that the new International Development Secretary is about to slash development spending and channel Britain's aid budget into...
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Friday, August 26, 2016

Joe Mellor — The beginning of the end? Huge NHS cuts across England

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Looks like Theresa May is all talk and plans to pursue Thatcherism. The NHS has been thrown into even more turmoil, after plans have be...
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Tuesday, July 7, 2015

Michael Nevradakis and Greg Palast — GREECE’D: We Voted ‘No’ to slavery, but ‘Yes’ to our chains

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What’s simply whack-o is that, while voting “No” to austerity, many Greeks wish to remain shackled to the euro, the very cause of our miser...
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Friday, December 5, 2014

Joe Weisenthal — Here's David Cameron Calling For Permanent Austerity In Front Of All Kinds Of Ridiculous Gold Things

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Business Insider Here's David Cameron Calling For Permanent Austerity In Front Of All Kinds Of Ridiculous Gold Things Joe Weisenthal...
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Monday, March 31, 2014

Simon Wren-Lewis — The Left and Economic Policy

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This gives us two problems that occur for the left and not the right. However the right has two problems of its own when it comes to gettin...
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Monday, January 6, 2014

Kerry-anne Mendoza — Osborne To Axe Welfare State With £25Bn Of New Cuts. What’s He Coming For Next?

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George Osborne used his first speech of 2014 today to warn that a further £25bn of cuts in public spending is required after the 2015 gene...
Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Rowan BosworthDavies — How the legacy of Thatcher and Reagan made the 2008 financial crisis inevitable

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The consequences of Thatcher and Reagan's Friedman and Hayek-inspired free market utopianism and market fundamentalism. Adds more detail...
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Saturday, April 13, 2013

Robert Reich exposes Obama's offer to cut Social Security as a give-away

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John Boehner, Speaker of the House, revealed why it's politically naive for the president to offer up cuts in Social Security in the ho...
Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Randy Wray — The End of an Era: The Reagan-Thatcher Years, Goodbye and Good Riddance

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What really happened in the Thatcher-Reagan years and after. Economonitor — Great Leap Forward The End of an Era: The Reagan-Thatcher Years,...
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Tuesday, April 9, 2013

Thatcher – ‘Sorry You’ve Lost Your Job’ — Thatcher – ‘Sorry You’ve Lost Your Job’

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Video and transcript. Michael Hudson Thatcher – ‘Sorry You’ve Lost Your Job’ Paul Jay interviews Michael Hudson
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Monday, April 8, 2013

Lars Syll — Thatcher and the neoliberal counterrevolution

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Contra Thatcherism. Lars P. Syll's Blog Thatcher and the neoliberal counterrevolution Lars P. Syll | Professor of Social Studies an...
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Ramanan on Wynne Godley on the failure of Thatcherism

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Godley references. The Case of Concerted Action Margaret Thatcher’s Gigantic Con Trick Ramanan

Jeffrey Sommers and Michael Hudson — Mrs. Thatcher’s Mean Legacy — The Queen Mother of Global Austerity and Financialization

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We typically honor the convention to refrain from to speak ill of the recently departed. But Margaret Thatcher probably would not object to...
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Ramanan — … One Funeral At A Time?

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The variant of this [longer Max Planck quotation] is “Science advances one funeral at a time.” Margaret Thatcher passed away today but Th...
Sunday, March 10, 2013

Ha-Joon Chang — Britain: a nation in decay [or the race to the bottom]

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Ha-Joon Chang nails it. The UK problem is Thatcherism aka Neoliberalism, in which the goal is to run permanent trade surpluses by running f...
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Wednesday, July 18, 2012

Philip Pilkington — The New Monetarism Part I-III

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W hile there are pretty stark dissimilarities between the current quantitative easing (QE) policies of many governments and the old monetar...
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Thursday, June 7, 2012

Margaret Thatcher on "taxpayer money"

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...I think they've [Labour Party] made the biggest financial mess that any government's ever made in this country for a very long t...
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