Showing posts with label Chinamerica. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Chinamerica. Show all posts
Sunday, May 11, 2025

Whatever else may be said about Rene Girard, he grasped the big problem even if he miscast it as capitalist, namely Chinamerica

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   “Everyone now knows that the looming conflict between the US and China, for example, has nothing to do with a ‘clash of civilisations’, ...
Monday, April 7, 2025

Chairman Donny says you will own nothing and be happy in your work

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Wednesday, July 13, 2022

AMWAY's Steve Van Andel said the highlight of his entire career was China: He and AMWAY got rich as Croesus from the giant sucking sound of your jobs leaving America

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July 2017: A look back at Amway co-CEO Steve Van Andel's 45-year career Career highlight: China When asked to share a highlight of his ...
Wednesday, April 13, 2022

Abortion has left a "million empty spaces" every damn year since 1973 but we're supposed to view the COVID-19 death toll as cruel somehow

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  Million empty spaces: Chronicling Covid's cruel American toll...   A reckoning is surely coming, and a million dead from COVID-19 is n...
Monday, July 5, 2021

Joel Kotkin has come around, now calls it what it is: Global fascism

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In 2018, Kotkin was still tip-toeing around the obvious, but not anymore: Mussolini’s notion of fascism has become increasingly dominant in ...
Friday, January 25, 2019

Welcome to the Global Fascist State, where politics is a crime no matter where you live: China, Venezuela, Iran, USA, France, Britain . . .

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Monday, January 14, 2019

Much smaller than first thought to be, the gig economy lies prostrate before the great wall of state capitalism

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"The Gig Economy Increasingly Defines Late-Stage Capitalism Annie Lowrey, Atlantic"    is how Real Clear Markets...
Tuesday, December 18, 2018

As the flipside version of Chinese state capitalism, it is fitting that fascist America have a show trial now and again

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Monday, September 3, 2018

Like just about everyone else on the left, Joel Kotkin continues to twist himself in pretzels to avoid calling our system what it already is

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State capitalism. It is the socialism of the right, despite what names people may give it. The fascist model in which business and gov...
Wednesday, June 27, 2018

Obama's fascist Larry Summers credits Chinese state capitalism for its advances instead of its thefts

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Here : “You ask me where China's technological progress is coming from. It's coming from terrific entrepreneurs who are gettin...
Tuesday, May 22, 2018

The American Spectator singles out Michigan for its $16 billion in corporate welfare, but the cronyism trend is up 39% just in the top 10 states since 2015

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The story is here , and is more than correct to state: Unfortunately, crony capitalism is something both parties are willing to get ...
Saturday, April 2, 2016

Since the 1990s 144,000 manufacturing and related jobs lost in Wisconsin due to free-trade agreements

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Reported here : Wisconsin has lost more than more than 68,000 manufacturing jobs since the mid-1990s and the first of several contro...
Tuesday, January 26, 2016

New study says trade with China caused severe permanent harm to American workers

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From Noah Smith in " Free Trade With China Wasn't Such a Great Idea for the U.S. " for BloombergView, who says the public ha...
Thursday, August 27, 2015

Scott Walker talks tough on China now, but used to wear a US flag, China flag lapel pin

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Video here . Pesky symbols.
Sunday, July 19, 2015

Why capitalism, communism, socialism and fascism etc. turn out to be culs-de-sac

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Seen here : 'Mao famously speculated on the nature of contradictions in a 1937 essay: “The law of contradiction in things, that ...
Thursday, March 26, 2015

Free-trade has hollowed out the middle class

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So reports Noah Smith, here : "[T]here is a growing body of research showing that globalization -- and, in particular, the rise o...
Thursday, January 1, 2015

Updated: Global middle class hits one billion in 2014, but has actually declined since 2010

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So reported the Times of India here  in October: Credit Suisse's Global Wealth Report 2014 released on Tuesday says that there a...
Saturday, October 11, 2014

The irony: The Arab street views the Christian West as as anti-capitalist as itself

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From Hernando de Soto, here : For the poor in many Arab states, it can take years to do something as simple as validating a title to r...
Wednesday, April 2, 2014

Has America Exported Its Middle Class?

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Thomas Edsall for the New York Times here seems to think so, and summarizes a number of studies which say yes and no: Branko Milanovic, a v...
Friday, November 1, 2013

When We Said Both America And China Had Fascist Economies, It Didn't Make News Like Tom Easton Made Wednesday

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2nd generation type 094 missile boats can now threaten US OK, call us early ( here and here ). Tom Easton, American Finance editor for The ...