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AlphaCentauri (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-12-08 09:18 PM Original message |
A Fresh Look at the Apostle of Free Markets |
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Sarah Ibarruri (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-12-08 09:23 PM Response to Original message |
1. Good article |
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54anickel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-12-08 10:13 PM Response to Reply #1 |
8. Ironic, wasn't it Friedman who said "Only a crisis, whether actual or perceived, |
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Joe Bacon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-13-08 02:07 AM Response to Reply #8 |
15. Yeah and Chile was Milton's Laboratory |
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tanyev (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-12-08 09:29 PM Response to Original message |
2. The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein is a blistering analysis of Friedman's policies. |
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Mojambo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-12-08 09:38 PM Response to Reply #2 |
4. As is Ha-Joon Chang's "Bad Samaritans" n/t |
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AlphaCentauri (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-12-08 09:49 PM Response to Reply #4 |
5. Great book! |
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varelse (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-12-08 09:29 PM Response to Original message |
3. I'm having a DUH moment here |
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JDPriestly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-13-08 01:27 AM Response to Reply #3 |
14. It's also not geared to educate or provide health care for ordinary people. |
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AP (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-13-08 08:02 AM Response to Reply #14 |
19. It's not geared to deliver great benefits over the long term, or very broadly. |
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Cresent City Kid (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-12-08 09:55 PM Response to Original message |
6. The One Percent |
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calimary (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-12-08 10:53 PM Response to Reply #6 |
9. I think that's what some folks - um - diplomatically call "trickle down." The rest of |
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Cresent City Kid (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-12-08 11:03 PM Response to Reply #9 |
11. Thanks calimary |
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calimary (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-13-08 12:50 AM Response to Reply #11 |
13. I'm not sure how old you are, but I remember, with bile rising in my gut, that time. |
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UpInArms (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-13-08 07:55 AM Response to Reply #13 |
18. not to mention the death of the Fairness Doctrine began under with |
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Cresent City Kid (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-13-08 09:40 AM Response to Reply #13 |
20. I was 18 in 1984 |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-12-08 10:07 PM Response to Original message |
7. Ronnie presided over depression-era levels of unemployment and loss of US manufacturing base |
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ShockediSay (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-12-08 11:02 PM Response to Original message |
10. Sure, the economy expanded, but not the median family income, |
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gratuitous (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-12-08 11:08 PM Response to Original message |
12. Yep, free markets . . . |
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Caradoc (154 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-13-08 06:14 AM Response to Reply #12 |
16. A classic human mistake.... |
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fasttense (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-13-08 06:37 AM Response to Original message |
17. The idiot Friedman like to talk as if he knew something but he never |
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brentspeak (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-13-08 10:20 AM Response to Original message |
21. And Friedman acolytes will always call Friedman critics "anti-capitalists" |
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fascisthunter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-13-08 10:38 AM Response to Reply #21 |
23. or a Dictator |
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fascisthunter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-13-08 10:24 AM Response to Original message |
22. How Many Would Consider Friedman to be a Fascist and Not a Capitalist? |
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