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  • Money and Power: The (Secret) City

    Interesting bit of knowledge about the financial world of which I was unaware. I am not putting this forward to participate in conspiracy theories. I have read enough Robert Anton Wilson to know that can never be anything more than… Continue reading

    Money and Power: The (Secret) City

  • The Crisis of Finance Capitalism and the Exhaustion of Neoliberalism

    The report “Changing Banking for Good” attempts to make bankers personally responsible, to reform bank governance and strengthen the powers of regulators. Some think that if the report’s recommendations are implemented, it will destroy London as a global financial center.… Continue reading

    The Crisis of Finance Capitalism and the Exhaustion of Neoliberalism

  • Debt – a global scam | New Internationalist

    Large outstanding personal debts – say a mortgage taken out during a housing bubble – can turn even the stoutest of us into ‘quivering insomniac jellies of hopeless indebtedness’ (as Margaret Atwood so accurately puts it). Debt is, we feel,… Continue reading

    Debt – a global scam | New Internationalist

  • The Banking Conception of Education

    “In the banking concept of education, knowledge is a gift bestowed by those who consider themselves knowledgeable upon those whom they consider to know nothing.” Paulo Freire, The Pedagogy of the Oppressed                … Continue reading

  • The Croney Capitalism Blowout

    Originally posted on Dead Wild Roses:   Why do things happen the way they do?  Why do certain segments of society do well when everyone else is being hammered?  Some would say through being “smart” and “working hard”, but that… Continue reading

  • The Widening Divide Between Wall Street and Washington | TIME.com

    Interesting op/ed at Time.com from the Curious Capitalist. Corporate finance is global. Politics remains local. Situating ourselves within the dialectic betwixt economics & policy is very much an important affair in facing up to the Society of Control & its… Continue reading