Tag: Washington Consensus

• Pretty Bubbles Turning Into Grime

  Michael Hudson has a new book out so I thought it was high time I posted some thoughts I’ve been meaning to write up about his last one, The Bubble and Beyond. I’ve posted before about Hudson’s 1973 classic Superimperialism, whose analysis of the economic strategy of American Empire was followed by a terrific 1977 […]

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  September 13, 2015

  Anti-Neoliberalism, Book Reviews, Corporate Welfare, Current Events, Debt, Economics, History, Politics

  american empire, Bill Black, Black Agenda Report, Bob Pollin, Book Reviews, Brown University, Cambridge, Capitalism, Cold War, corporate welfare, Counterpunch, Economics, Global Fracture, Harvard University, History, Imperialism, Jedediah Purdy, Joseph Stiglitz, Karl Marx, michael hudson, Mission of Burma, MIT, Nick Drake, Paul Krugman, Paul Volcker, Superimperialism, Syriza, Television Personalities, The Bubble & Beyond, The Fall, The Last Poets, The New York Times, The Real News Network, UMKC, Vijay Prashad, Washington Consensus, Yanis Varoufakis

• Dirty Harry Does Diversity.2: Indicting Invictus

  (Like the original Magnum Force, this post is a sequel to the first Dirty Harry.) Of all of Clint Eastwood’s “Sympathy for the Other” movies, Invictus was the most popular in the Land of the Liberals.  J. Edgar (gays), Million Dollar Baby (women), and Gran Torino (SE Asians) all did well but received more criticism than […]

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  March 22, 2015

  Anti-Neoliberalism, Current Events, Dirty Harry Does Diversity, Film, History

  A.O. Scott, Africa, american empire, ANC, Barack Obama, Capitalism, Civil Rights Movement, Clint Eastwood, Economics, Films, IMF, Invictus, Irvin Jim, Left media, Matt Damon, Nelson Mandela, Neoliberalism, NUMSA, Pambazuka News, Patrick Bond, Paul Jay, Politics, profit margins, Race, Selma, The New York Times, The Real News Network, Washington Consensus

• Sunday Paper with the BPF: Ahhh, Mindfulness

  Well, I don’t really read a Sunday newspaper anymore.  Either they’ve been driven out of business by the internet or intellectually eviscerated by corporate centralized ownership.  But I’ve been kicking back and checking out some posts on the Buddhist Peace Fellowship (BPF) website after renewing my membership today.  Among them was a piece with a […]

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  June 29, 2014

  Anti-Neoliberalism, Book excerpts, Buddhism, Economics, History, Politics, The Dharma

  Afghanistan, Alfred McCoy, american empire, Buddhism, Buddhist Peace Fellowship, Burma, Capitalism, chalmers johnson, Devo, Doug Henwood, Drug Policy, Economics, Eric Schmidt, Feminism, Google, IMF, Jesse Maceo Vega-Frey, Jon Kabat-Zinn, Karl Marx, KRS-One, Laos, Neoliberalism, NPR, Peter Dale Scott, Professor Elizabeth Stanley, Race, Ronald Purser, Silicon Valley, Thailand, The Dharma, The Stone House, Time magazine, Vipassana Hawaii, Washington Consensus, Whip It, Wired magazine

• Corporate Welfare.8: Twitter Takes

    There’s a new story out today from Julia Wong of In These Times about how Twitter’s headquarters in San Francisco “have become a symbol of gentrification and displacement for housing activists and community organizations in the city. ” I asked a friend of mine who had moved from the Bay Area to New York fairly recently […]

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  February 22, 2014

  Anti-Neoliberalism, Corporate Welfare, Economics, Politics, Series of posts

  Capitalism, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Economics, Field of Schemes, In These Times, Julia Wong, Left media, MLB, NBA, NFL, NHL, profit margins, San Francisco, San Francisco Chronicle, SEIU, Sports, Truthout, Twitter, Unions, Washington Consensus

• Corporate Welfare.6: Pulling a Fast One

  UC Berkeley’s Labor Center has published a new study on the role public subsidies play in the business model of fast food chains like McDonald’s, Burger King, and Wendy’s.  Like the other corporations in this series of posts, it turns out that these firms surreptitiously pocket billions in public subsidies while preaching the doctrine of […]

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  October 17, 2013

  Anti-Neoliberalism, Corporate Welfare, Economics, Politics

  Burger King, Capitalism, Economics, Fast Food Forward, Food Justice, Labor movement, McDonald’s, Neoliberalism, Politics, profit margins, Strikes, The Real News Network, UC Berkeley Labor Center, Washington Consensus, Wendy’s

• Corporate Welfare.2: Subsidizing Sallie Mae

  Continuing this series on the publicly funded nature of so called private enterprise in this country…. Sometimes subsidies know how to disguise themselves.  Blackwater’s defense contracts bring them direct cash payments for no-bid contracts.  But student lenders like Sallie Mae get their government cheese in the form of regulations on interest rates.  In a double […]

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  July 3, 2013

  Debt, Economics, Politics, Series of posts

  Barack Obama, Capitalism, David Graeber, Doug Henwood, Economics, Elizabeth Warren, Left media, michael hudson, Neoliberalism, Politics, profit margins, Socialism, Spain, The Real News Network, Washington Consensus

• Secrets of the Temple.2: Double Dutch

  (This is a follow up to the post Secrets of the Temple.1: More Than a Doorstop, dated 1/13/13.) As I wrote in my first post on William Greider’s history of the Federal Reserve board, one of the aims of “Secrets of the Temple” is to question whether Ronald Reagan really was the primary source of […]

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  May 19, 2013

  Anti-Neoliberalism, Book Reviews, Debt, Economics, History, Politics, Secrets of the Temple, Series of posts

  american empire, Book Reviews, Capitalism, Economics, History, John Maynard Keynes, Neoliberalism, Niall Ferguson, Politics, Secrets of the Temple, The Real News Network, Washington Consensus, William Greider

• Secrets of the Temple.1: More Than A Doorstop

  The operations of the Federal Reserve board are notoriously shrouded in mystery.  Technocratic decisions on monetary policy that supposedly need to be protected from the fickle pressures of politics are carried out by an appointed board of governors who like to operate behind closed doors.  William Grieder set out to demystify this institution in the […]

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  January 13, 2013

  Anti-Neoliberalism, Book Reviews, Debt, Economics, History, Politics, Series of posts, Uncategorized

  Book Reviews, Economics, History, USA, Washington Consensus, William Grieder

• The Democratic Cliff

  The current metaphor of “the fiscal cliff” marks the return of a few common tropes in American politics.  First is the latest incarnation of what Naomi Klein has referred to as the Shock Doctrine, the use and sometimes manufacturing of “crisis” situations to force people to accept right wing / neoliberal policies that legislative bodies […]

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  December 28, 2012

  Anti-Neoliberalism, Economics, Politics

  Austerity, Barack Obama, Bill Black, Economics, Fiscal Cliff, Folk Implosion, Left media, Neoliberalism, Politics, The Real News Network, USA, Walter Ben Michaels, Washington Consensus, Yasmin Nair

• The Interpretation of Dreams

  I don’t usually watch the Olympics much.  Not because I don’t enjoy the events, but because NBC usually feels compelled to shovel forklifts of “human interest” stories down your throat with brief breaks taken for cursory athletic performances.  So I wasn’t surprised when I checked in on the Olympics briefly this summer and didn’t see […]

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  August 22, 2012

  Anti-Neoliberalism, History, Politics, Sports

  Capitalism, Cold War, Dream Team, IMF, Imperialism, Latin America, Michael Jordan, Politics, Sports, USA, Washington Consensus