“The world’s gone mad today/And good’s bad today/And black’s white today/And day’s night today…” To those wondering about the consequences of a Clinton administration owned …
Deal with the Devil, come up empty-handed:
The pitfalls of crony capitalism.
UPDATE 12/20/22: Billionaires like [former billionaire] Sam Bankman-Fried have caught on and are now routinely using the language of Woke as cover for their misuse …
That Wonderful Man
Warren Buffett-
The Keystone Connection:
Yet another lesson in Crony Capitalism
Warren Buffett, another one of Those Wonderful Men, termed as such by the clueless public bought off by what appears to be “compassion.” An uber- Capitalist supporting …
Take the ‘Crony’ Out of ‘Crony Capitalism’
When Judge Richard Posner, the prolific conservative intellectual, released his book “A Failure of Capitalism: The Crisis of ’08 and the Descent Into Depression” last year, you might have thought the final verdict was in: Capitalism caused the economic downturn and high unemployment.
That this verdict was pronounced by someone like Posner, who is associated with the University of Chicago and the free-market law and economics movement, gave moral support to all the politicians who were intent on exploiting the recession (as they exploit all crises) to increase government control of the economy.
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Under Obama, crony capitalism again rules the day
In his best-seller “Inside U.S.A.”, the hugely readable journalist John Gunther described America as it was in the last year of World War II. He interviewed hundreds of politicians, businessmen and journalists, but only four men rated a separate chapter — three politicians and Henry J. Kaiser, the California construction magnate who built dams and ships and manufactured concrete and steel and aluminum.
Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/Under-Obama_-crony-capitalism-again-rules-the-day-84271222.html#ixzz15AQRolkH
Crony Car Capitalism
Several recent revelations bring home just what a cesspool of crony capitalism the American auto industry has become. The Obama administration and the UAW (Obama’s major financial and political supporter) are running the show.
Politics & Strange Bedfellows?
Secret confab with Repubs and Crony Caps is an orgy!
The “progressively” more desperate Republican establishment and the cream of crony capitalism find Common Cause! Sailing in last weekend on private, carbon-spewing jets by the score, the …
Eminent Domain: Cruel Crony Donald shows his Big Ugly on this one.
UPDATE 11/20/21: Six years on, this writer’s take on Trump is certainly different. At that time, my view of Trump came from the avatars of …
Capitalism—Minus the Cronies
The revelation that the American taxpayer is now the World’s Banker of Last Resort, as revealed by the new FinReg bill (yet another assault on real, as opposed to crony capitalism), means Americans must face the disturbing reality that our national sovereignty is being completely undermined. And those undermining it have only one over-riding loyalty: a level of naked self-interest beyond anything the world has ever witnessed.