The recent decisions by two of the most influential national newspapers of record to not publish their endorsements of Vice President Kamala Harris says a lot about how seriously they take Trump’s threats to democracy and his promises of vengeance against his enemies.
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The Road to Serfdom, Part VII
As economies veer out of balance and polarize, rentiers – who rely on other people's debt to sustain their own wealth – aim to deter economies from doing anything to prevent this widening imbalance.
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The Road to Serfdom, Part VI
Appropriating and expropriating resources is now an autonomous financial dynamic, working more covertly and even in a more democratic political context than military conquest.
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The Road to Serfdom, Part V
In today's bailout economy, bad bank loans are shifted onto the public balance sheet as wealth is siphoned off to the top of the economic pyramid.