Showing posts with label State Capitalism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label State Capitalism. Show all posts
Friday, February 13, 2026

The U.S. state capitalist EV boondoggle comes to an end, shape-shifting automakers take well-deserved $50 billion hit

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    Detroit Automakers Take $50 Billion Hit as EV Bubble Bursts ... Following years of investments into EV technology, the Detroit Big Three...
Sunday, February 8, 2026

Trump's corrupt state capitalism, but I repeat myself, is anti-American, anti-competitive, and advances long-standing Democrat objectives, which is one reason big business is keeping its big yap shut

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When the Democrats can't get what they want, a Republican chump comes along who does it for them. The power of existing businesses will ...

America's bailouts of banks and then businesses in past crises have paved the way for Trump's full-blown state capitalist interventions in the private sector, buying company stocks with the people's money, making loans, and taking direct control

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Trump is turning America into China, but all America cares about today is the Super Bowl.     The Trump administration equity portfolio is g...
Sunday, January 25, 2026

Auron Macintyre, inspired by Curtis Yarvin, is an apologist for America's slouch into open fascism, for Chinamerica, for state capitalism, for totalitarianism

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He feigns unhappiness with this, but succumbs in the end to the is-is-ought fallacy. He is platformed in the media owned by Glenn Beck, and ...
Saturday, September 20, 2025

This is risible propaganda posing as news from The Hill, which is the same Nexstar which pulled Kimmel's show

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Is DePauw University also a subsidiary of Nexstar? And how much was this guy paid to write this?  Kimmel's Ratings in Steep Decline, ABC...
Monday, September 1, 2025

Irwin Stelzer: Trump has substituted state capitalism for market capitalism

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    Trump sees off the free-market capitalism that enriched America ... In short, the extent of presidential control of the economy has not...
Thursday, August 21, 2025

Tulane University's Walter Isaacson calls out Trump's state capitalism for Nvidia, Intel, and Advanced Micro Devices

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  Trump’s Nvidia and Intel meddling is a ‘scattershot method of crony capitalism’: Walter Isaacson ... “That state capitalism often evolves ...
Tuesday, August 19, 2025

The Trump administration's Howard Lutnick doubles down on the state capitalism of the CHIPS Act of Joe Biden

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  Lutnick says Intel has to give government equity in return for CHIPS Act funds   Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said Tuesday that Inte...
Monday, August 11, 2025

The Wall Street Journal's Greg Ip observes America under Trump becoming more like China under Xi

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The U.S. Marches Toward State Capitalism With American Characteristics:  President Trump is imitating Chinese Communist Party by extending p...
Friday, May 2, 2025

Federal employment is 1.1% of civilian population in April 2025: This is the swamp billionaires want to drain

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 The worst it ever got was 2.4% in December 1952 while Truman was still president. The leisure class of state capitalism has to have somethi...
Thursday, December 7, 2023

C'mon man, we're supposed to fear a coming Trump dictatorship while Joe Biden threatens to seize drug patents as we speak

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  The soft fascism of public-private partnership becomes hard fascism: “When drug companies won’t sell taxpayer-funded drugs at reasonable ...
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 ...
Tuesday, February 18, 2020

LOL, what a shock: Chicom state capitalism has produced the most severe income inequality in the world, enriching The Party

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Story . According to the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States, China has the world’s highest Gini coef...
Monday, March 11, 2019

Did Billy Cunningham mention the Trumpster's lousy February jobs number last night?

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If he did I must have missed it. 20,000 jobs in February, worst performance in 9 years, but Billy Cunningham blathered on about how soc...
Friday, March 8, 2019

Trump as state capitalist: Once was a one-off, twice is a Freudian slip

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Trump's brain has no room for the individual qua individual, only for the individual as representative of a brand. The higher reality, ...
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...
Wednesday, December 19, 2018

State capitalism means rewarding bankrupt Sears executives with $25 million in bonuses

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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...
Monday, August 27, 2018

Martin Wolf for The Financial Times likes business historian Adam Tooze's important new book CRASHED: HOW A DECADE OF FINANCIAL CRISES CHANGED THE WORLD

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See Martin Wolf,  What really went wrong in the 2008 financial crisis? Tooze has been making the rounds at places like Bloomberg  (and...