Showing posts with label State Capitalism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label State Capitalism. Show all posts
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...
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 ...
Tuesday, May 15, 2018

Our fearless leader has become the tool of Chinese state capitalism: "Too many jobs in China lost"

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Obviously the real Donald Trump who in the past might have said "Not enough jobs in China lost!" has disappeared. Sad! Mor...
Wednesday, May 2, 2018

The socialist backlash is coming

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Rasmussen says 46% already favor government guaranteed jobs. Hillary admits 41% of Democrats already are socialists. All it will...