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bicentennial_baby (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-17-08 05:56 PM Original message |
Sooo....I'm reading "The Shock Doctrine" right now, and... |
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Pale Blue Dot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-17-08 05:57 PM Response to Original message |
1. Scary, isn't it? |
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bicentennial_baby (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-17-08 05:59 PM Response to Reply #1 |
3. Horrifying...And, I'm sad that I'm about to be disillusioned |
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malaise (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-17-08 07:28 PM Response to Reply #3 |
28. Sachs abandoned neo-liberal economics after messing up |
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Tandalayo_Scheisskopf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-17-08 05:58 PM Response to Original message |
2. As I have long said: |
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bicentennial_baby (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-17-08 05:59 PM Response to Reply #2 |
4. I agree with you wholeheartedly |
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malaise (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-17-08 07:31 PM Response to Reply #2 |
29. You'll also have to burn all those stupid disproved books |
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conflictgirl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-17-08 06:03 PM Response to Original message |
5. I'm reading it right now and it's just...horrifying |
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bicentennial_baby (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-17-08 06:05 PM Response to Reply #5 |
6. And Jeffrey Sachs, as I said above.... |
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Pale Blue Dot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-17-08 06:21 PM Response to Reply #5 |
7. Another one who doesn't come off looking so good |
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bicentennial_baby (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-17-08 06:23 PM Response to Reply #7 |
8. Really? |
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Pale Blue Dot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-17-08 06:23 PM Response to Reply #8 |
9. Russia and Yeltsin. nt |
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blm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-17-08 06:26 PM Response to Original message |
10. Double spit for me, b_b. Have you read Confessions of an Economic Hitman? |
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bicentennial_baby (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-17-08 06:29 PM Response to Reply #10 |
11. Yes! I bought that right when it came out...made me sick to my stomach |
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blm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-17-08 06:33 PM Response to Reply #11 |
14. National Security Archives - you'll want the unedited version before the GOP complained. |
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bicentennial_baby (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-17-08 06:38 PM Response to Reply #14 |
16. Ok, thanks... |
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Ichingcarpenter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-17-08 06:30 PM Response to Original message |
12. Milton Friedman and Allen Greenspan were two |
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bicentennial_baby (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-17-08 06:39 PM Response to Reply #12 |
17. I loathe Greenspan...viscerally |
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Usrename (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-17-08 06:54 PM Response to Reply #17 |
20. Greenspan, summed up in a toon by Tom Tomorrow |
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PDJane (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-17-08 06:32 PM Response to Original message |
13. If you have the inclination, after finishing shock doctrine, |
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bicentennial_baby (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-17-08 06:38 PM Response to Reply #13 |
15. I will check that out, thanks! |
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farmbo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-17-08 06:41 PM Response to Original message |
18. Just started it myself... We've been Had |
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bicentennial_baby (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-17-08 06:44 PM Response to Reply #18 |
19. Everyone's been had... |
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Usrename (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-17-08 06:59 PM Response to Reply #18 |
23. I'm only part way into it, too. |
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undergroundpanther (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-17-08 06:54 PM Response to Original message |
21. I'd like to leave a big stinky turd on his grave, myself. |
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bicentennial_baby (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-17-08 07:00 PM Response to Reply #21 |
24. I have to go out for a bit, I will check your links out when I get home.. |
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undergroundpanther (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-17-08 10:23 PM Response to Reply #24 |
33. No prob. |
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flvegan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-17-08 06:59 PM Response to Original message |
22. "Economics", as applied in the real world needs more critics. |
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bicentennial_baby (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-17-08 07:06 PM Response to Reply #22 |
25. That be me! |
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flvegan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-17-08 07:13 PM Response to Reply #25 |
26. Real Econ folk would agree with your shirt. |
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bicentennial_baby (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-17-08 07:16 PM Response to Reply #26 |
27. Actually, I know most of my Profs do agree... |
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Auggie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-17-08 07:42 PM Response to Original message |
30. If you want to see it in action, just look out the window |
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pnorman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-17-08 08:26 PM Response to Original message |
31. I have that book in Audible.com format, and have listened to it TWICE (so far). |
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pnorman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-18-08 02:11 AM Response to Reply #31 |
40. I should have elaborated on my last sentence. |
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dixiegrrrrl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-17-08 08:48 PM Response to Original message |
32. Naomi Klein on Youtube |
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SeattleGirl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-17-08 10:49 PM Response to Original message |
34. I just started that book too. |
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mmonk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-17-08 11:00 PM Response to Original message |
35. A very important book IMO. I have it and recommend to |
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MisterP (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-17-08 11:03 PM Response to Original message |
36. careful when you go near Friedman's grave: if there's enough living people there, he'll come back |
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gmudem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-17-08 11:19 PM Response to Original message |
37. I'm reading it right now too. |
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alfredo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-17-08 11:23 PM Response to Original message |
38. I'm reading it too. All those cruel banana republics were neo con paradises. |
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Arctic Dave (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-18-08 01:34 AM Response to Original message |
39. Anyone who says you can regulate greed is an idiot. |
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JCMach1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-18-08 02:44 AM Response to Original message |
41. to the OP, you might want to research Obama's economic advisors |
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