Paul Krugman on America's New Gilded Age

Warren came right out and told everyone that would listen, now no one would pay any attention...

so politicians could claim that they were "doing something". Unless and until we accept the fact that the fundamental precepts of capitalism (e.g. buy low sell high, interest, etc.) simply represent the theft of others labor and/or product, there is no chance for change.

Americans from the destroyers. We also had governments that enforced anti-trust laws, and estate taxes that helped prevent dynasties.

inevitable and our own Bubba Bill killed anti-trust, though they had been whittled away at for years before.

Pinkerton who will be standing against us, but we must win.

force their will upon the corporate lackeys in DC? The laws currently all favor the corporations over the people and until that is changed the unions can't garner any power.

to return a voice to the people. We should also remove personhood from corporations. It's not going to be easy.

The Times' editorial board has pretty much been told by the paper's owners to push the "free trade" swill as much as possible.

When asked why he's been attacked by so-called Dem centrists and Dem hawks...

"I think a lot of this comes from people who are, you might say, embarrassed at not having spoke up about what was going on earlier. There's a broader syndrome, not so much personal, where the liberal hawks that are for the war are constantly trying to denigrate the people that got it right. There's a clear element of, I might say, a guilty conscience in all that. And I think there's some of that going on here. By the way, The New York Review of Books review just came out. It's very different; it's not the same book being described. You know Brad DeLong, the blogger and Berkley economist, and a friend, has actually created the Ancient and Hermetic Order of the Shrill , because people are always calling me shrill. It is funny. You're considered unreliable and unsound on national security unless you were wrong about Iraq. You're considered shrill and unreliable on politics unless you waited until about 2005 to notice Bush was a really bad president. It's a very peculiar situation. So I'm unreliable, because I actually noticed very early what these people were up to."

He hits it out of the park....

He discussed the different Dem. candidates and how they might relate to that issue and then discussed the war in Iraq. He mentioned the money being dumped into the campaigns by the corps. and the possible consequences. Very good article.

Seems so logical in economic terms that health care has put a burden on our economy.

thanks for posting.

mad men, that they would pose a clear and present danger to our nation.

The best definition I know of politics is from a first year text book by Ponton and Gill. Politics is about decision-making re the allocation of resources. This depends on the principles underlying this allocation (the ideology) and the means by which some people and groups are able to influence the decision-making process (special interests).
It's always about the economy and who gets what.
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Lovely interview - I'll order the book.
Gr.