The tag 'Wall Street' is associated with 53 posts.

Depression and Fascism: Krugman’s Analysis

Posted by Dave Emory ⋅ December 22, 2011 ⋅ 13 comments

COMMENT: Although he insists on refrain­ing from using the “F” word for what is tran­spir­ing in Europe, Nobel Prize-winning econ­o­mist Paul Krug­man has noted in a New York Times col­umn that the “aus­ter­ity” mea­sures cham­pi­oned by Ger­many (and also the GOP in the U.S.) and being cur­rently imple­mented, are dri­ving for­ward extreme right pol­i­tics in [...]

Bye, Bye Miss American Pie, er . . . Democracy. Not With a Bang, but a Whimper!

Posted by Dave Emory ⋅ December 20, 2011 ⋅ 6 comments

COMMENT: As noted by blog­ger David Sea­mon, the demise of Amer­i­can democ­racy took place amid the volu­mi­nous, flat­u­lant pon­tif­i­ca­tion of U.S. media pun­dits, a pro­found dis­trac­tion in the event.
With very lit­tle notice from politi­cial or media insti­tu­tions and/or indi­vid­u­als, the National Defense Autho­riza­tion Act has incor­po­rated some fea­tures that would allow the vir­tual elim­i­na­tion of civil [...]

“Now, Europe Will Speak German!” Germany to UK: Adopt the Euro, or Else!

Posted by Dave Emory ⋅ November 27, 2011 ⋅ 9 comments

COMMENT: As Ger­many cements its con­trol over the Euro­pean econ­omy and the Euro­pean Cen­tral Bank, the Ger­man power elite are openly and deri­sively call­ing for Britain to join the EMU.
(Note that the ECB could solve much of the euro­zone debt cri­sis by lend­ing money, but has been blocked by Ger­many from doing so. The only [...]

David Duke Endorses Occupy Wall Street

Posted by Dave Emory ⋅ October 29, 2011 ⋅ 2 comments

COMMENT: Long­time KKK and white suprema­cist leader David Duke has added his voice to the fas­cist and Nazi ele­ments climb­ing on the Occupy Wall Street band­wagon.
A num­ber of thoughts come to mind in this con­text. First, there are indi­ca­tions that far-right/fascist ele­ments (cloaked as “pro­gres­sives”) may have gen­er­ated the impe­tus for the move­ment in [...]

The Folks Who Call the Shots

Posted by Dave Emory ⋅ October 27, 2011 ⋅ 2 comments

COMMENT: From The New Sci­en­tist comes an arti­cle fea­tur­ing a detailed com­puter analy­sis of the con­cen­tra­tion of eco­nomic power wielded by trans-national cor­po­ra­tions.
Although this is not exactly rev­e­la­tory, the detail and sci­en­tific approach do pro­vide depth and grav­i­tas to the aware­ness that grow­ing con­cen­tra­tion of eco­nomic power dom­i­nates the world in which we live.
“Revealed–The Cap­i­tal­ist Network [...]

Anti-Semitism (“the Socialism of Fools”) in Evidence at Occupy Wall Street

Posted by Dave Emory ⋅ October 15, 2011 ⋅ 14 comments

COMMENT: Peo­ple around the world have much to be upset about with regard to the fail­ing global econ­omy, a cri­sis that was, to a con­sid­er­able extent, delib­er­ately pre­cip­i­tated.
Nonethe­less, the incli­na­tion to scape­goat Jews for the eco­nomic cri­sis con­tin­ues to man­i­fest itself, includ­ing at “Occupy Wall Street.”
(We should note in pass­ing that this does not appear [...]

Reflections on “Occupy Wall Street”: Fascism is Capitalism on Full-Auto

Posted by Dave Emory ⋅ October 14, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

COMMENT: As this soci­ety impacts upon the con­tra­dic­tions stem­ming from a care­fully man­i­cured and dis­torted his­tor­i­cal per­spec­tive, it is inter­est­ing to reflect on the research pre­sented on this web­site.
The true nature of fas­cism (or “the cor­po­rate state” as termed by Mus­solini) has been sys­tem­at­i­cally eclipsed by aca­d­e­mic illu­sions, directed at mis­lead­ing the unin­formed.
No program [...]

“All that Glitters is Not . . .” Oh, Never Mind!

Posted by Dave Emory ⋅ September 23, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

COMMENT: One can but won­der if the polit­i­cal and eco­nomic real­i­ties set forth by Peggy and Ster­ling Sea­grave in Gold War­riors are hav­ing an effect on the indi­vid­u­als and insti­tu­tions mak­ing their moves in the gold mar­ket.
Per­pet­u­ally in the shadow of World War II era polit­i­cal and eco­nomic manip­u­la­tion, the gold mar­ket is, to say [...]

Signs of the Times: Insecure Securities and Irregular Regulation

Posted by Dave Emory ⋅ August 24, 2011 ⋅ 2 comments

COMMENT: A for­mer Moody’s employee has stated for the record that the firm’s employ­ees were pres­sured to give AAA rat­ings to instru­ments that the company’s own inter­nal memos referred to as “shitty.”
In addi­tion, it turns out that the SEC has destroyed records of scan­dals dat­ing back 20 years.
“Moody’s man­agers Pres­sured Ana­lysts: Ex-Staffer” by Sarah N. Lynch; [...]

McGraw Family (Owners of S & P) are Longtime Intimates of the Bush Family

Posted by Dave Emory ⋅ August 9, 2011 ⋅ 7 comments

COMMENT: Stan­dard and Poor’s is owned by pub­lish­ing giant McGraw-Hill. In the wake of S & P’s down­grade of U.S. bonds’ rat­ing from AAA (for the first time in his­tory), it comes as no great sur­prise that the McGraw fam­ily are long time asso­ciates of the “Fam­ily of Secrets.”
This multi-generational asso­ci­a­tion goes back [...]

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