If Trump indeed tanks your 401(k) to make himself and his friends even richer, the opposition party should make that the centerpiece of their attack heading into next year’s election.
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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.
