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| 2/19/2012 |
Is This the End of Market Democracy? The 2012 election will offer voters a stark choice between right and left alternatives. President Obama is calling for: investing in things like education that gives everybody a chance to succeed. A tax code that makes sure everybody pays their fair share. And laws that make sure everybody follows the rules. That’s what will transform our economy. That’s what will grow our middle class again. Republicans, in turn, are denouncing the expansion of a Democratic “entitlement society” and what they see as a trend toward European social democracy. They are calling for sharply reduced taxes, regulation and government spending to free market forces and revive private sector economic growth. While Americans are going to be able to choose between two contrasting ideologies, what if both choices are off the mark? What if the legitimacy of free market capitalism in America is facing fundamental challenges that the candidates and their parties are not addressing? Here are some of the issues that are making some politicians and political thinkers uneasy: Are large segments of the American workforce — millions of people — at a structural disadvantage in the face of global competition, technological advance and ever more sophisticated forms of automation? Is this situation permanent? Will the share of profits from improving corporate productivity flowing to capital and to high-earning C.E.O.s continue to grow, while the income of wage earners stagnates and their share of profits declines? Has the surging wealth and income of the top one percent and of the top 0.1 percent reached a tipping point at which the political leverage of the very affluent decisively outweighs the influence of the electorate at large? Is it possible that in the United States and Europe, democratic free market capitalism is no longer capable of providing broadly shared benefits to a solid majority of workers? (New York Times) | |||
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keywords: Austria, Barack Obama, Campaign Finance Reform, China, Columbia University, Council On Foreign Relations, David Autor, Denmark, Education, Elections, European Union, Financial Crisis, Foreign Affairs, Francis Fukuyama, Germany, Globalization, Harvard University, Health Care, Income Tax, Japan, Jeffrey Sachs, Larry Summers, Lawrence Katz, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Michael Spence, Mitt Romney, National Economic Council, Netherlands, Nobel Prize, Norway, Pollution, Richard Freeman, Sandile Hlatshwayo, Simon Johnson, Stanford University, Sweden, Thomas Edsall, US Department Of The Treasury, Unemployment, United States
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| 6/3/2010 | Participants: Bilderberg Meetings Sitges, Spain 3-6 June 2010 (Bilderberg Meetings) | |||
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keywords: Acciona, Adrian Wooldridge, Advent International, Afghanistan, Airbus, Akbank, Alcoa, Alexander H G Rinnooy Kan, Alfa Laval, American Enterprise Institute, Ana Botín, Anadolu Group, Anders Eldrup, Anne Lauvergeon, Antti Blåfield, Areva, Austria, Axa Group, Banesto, Barclays, Belgium, Bernard Ramanantsoa, Bernardino León Gross, Bilderberg Group, Bill And Melinda Gates Foundation, Bill Gates, Birger Magnus, Björn Stigson, Björn Wahlroos, Bocconi University, Broad Institute Of Mit And Harvard, Canada, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Carl Bildt, Carnegie Endowment For International Peace, Charlie Rose, Christine Varney, Cisneros Group Of Companies, Clarium Capital Management, Coca Cola, Confederation Of Swedish Enterprise, Council Of The European Union, Council On Foreign Relations, Craig Mundie, Czech Republic, César Alierta, Daimlerchrysler, Dambisa Moyo, Daniel Vasella, Denmark, Der Standard, Deutsche Bank, Dieter Zetsche, Donald Graham, Dong Energy, Economic Recovery Advisory Board, Egil Myklebust, Eliamep, Enel, Eni S.p.a., Eric Lander, Eric Schmidt, Etienne Davignon, European Central Bank, European Commission, European Parliament, European Union, Evercore Partners Inc, F J Bing West, Fernando Teixeira Dos Santos, Fiat, Finland, Foreign Policy, Founders Fund, France, Francis Waldvogel, Francisco Pinto Balsemão, Franco Bernabè, Frank Mckenna, Frank Pearl, French Institute For International Relations, Fulvio Conti, George A David, George F Baker, George Papaconstantinou, Gertrude Tumpel-gugerell, Gianfelice Rocca, Goldman Sachs, Google, Gordon Campbell, Greece, Grupo Prisa, Grupo Santander, Gustavo Cisneros, Haldor Topsoe, Harvard University, Heather Reisman, Hec Paris Group, Heinz Fischer, Helsingin Sanomat, Henri De Castries, Henry Kissinger, Henry Kravis, Hudson Institute, Ignacio Polanco, Impresa, Indigo Books, Ing Group, Investor Ab, Ireland, J Robert Prichard, Jacob Wallenberg, Jaime Carvajal Urquijo, James Johnson, James Steinberg, James Wolfensohn, Jan H M Hommen, Jan Huyghebaert, Javier Solana, Jessica Mathews, Joaquín Almunia, John Elkann, John Keane, John Kerr, John Micklethwait, John Oldham, Jorma Ollila, Josef Ackermann, Josette Sheeran, José Entrecanales Ibarra, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, Juan Luis Cebrián, Juan María, Jyrki Katainen, Karel De Gucht, Kbc Group, Kissinger Associates, Klaus Kleinfeld, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & CO, Koç Holding A.Ş, LA Caixa, Larry Summers, Lars Renström, Laurence Tisch, Leiden University, Loukas Tsoukalis, Marcus Agius, Marie-josée Kravis, Mario Monti, Martin S Feldstein, Martin Taylor, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Matías Rodriguez Inciarte, Metrolinx, Microsoft, Moisés Naím, Mustafa V Koç, National Clinical Lead For Quality And Productivity, Nederlandsche Bank, Neelie Kroes, Netherlands, Niall Ferguson, Nin Génova, Norsk Hydro, Norway, Notre Europe, Nout Wellink, Novartis, Novartis Venture Fund, Oesterreichische Kontrollbank, Olaf Scholz, Oscar Bronner, Pakistan, Paolo Scaroni, Paul Gallagher, Paul Volcker, Paulo Rangel, Perseus, Peter Löscher, Peter Mansbridge, Peter Orszag, Peter Sutherland, Peter Thiel, Peter Voser, Philip Gordon, Portugal, Poul Nyrup Rasmussen, Prisa, Queen Beatrix, Queen Sofía, Richard Holbrooke, Richard Perle, Ripplewood Holdings, Robert Hormats, Robert Rubin, Robert Zoellick, Roger Altman, Rose Communications, Royal Dutch Shell, Ruşen Çakir, Rudolf Scholten, Sampo Plc, Scp Partners, Sean Parker, Shirley Williams, Siemens, Sitges, Social And Economic Council Of The Netherlands, Sonia Arrison, Spain, Spd, Storebrand, Suez-tractebel, Suzan Sabanci Dinçer, Svein Richard Brandtzæg, Sweden, Syngenta, Td Bank Financial Group, Techint, Telecom Italia, Telefónica, The Economist, Thierry De Montbrial, Thomas Enders, Timothy C Collins, Tommaso Padoa-schioppa, Tuncay Özilhan, Turkey, UK Parliament, UN World Food Programme, US Department Of State, US Department Of The Treasury, US National Economic Council, Ulrik Federspiel, United Kingdom, United Nations, United States, Urban Bäckström, Vendeline Von Bredow, Victor Halberstadt, W Edmund Clark, Washington Post, Wolfensohn & Company, World Bank, World Business Council For Sustainable Development, Z Damla Gürel
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| 5/10/2010 |
Justice Elena Kagan, and President Larry Summers Kagan's connections to Summers are interesting. She was a professor there when Summers arrived from his work at Treasury, under Bill Clinton, to deregulate banks and derivatives to get the gambling moving...guaranteed by the taxpayer. As President Summers of Harvard from 2001 to 2006, Kagan thrived. She was made a full professor, then Summers tapped her to be the Dean of Harvard Law. Her pet peeve there was to keep the American military and ROTC off campus because she disputes the "don't ask, don't tell" provisions put in place by Clinton. (NJ.com) | |||
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keywords: Animal Rights, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Cass Sunstein, D E Shaw & CO, Derivatives, Elena Kagan, Goldman Sachs, Harvard University, Larry Summers, Lgbt, US Congress, US Department Of The Treasury, United States, Wall Street
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| 4/27/2010 |
A List of Goldman Sachs People in the Obama Government: Names Attached to the Giant Squid’s Tentacles Here you will find, I believe, the most comprehensive list of people-groups yet available to show how Obama’s administration has really become the Goldman Sachs administration. The Obama administration is not the first administration that Goldman has infiltrated, although it is perhaps the one that has been most completely co-opted from top to bottom. (Fire Dog Lake) | |||
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keywords: Adam Storch, Alan Greenspan, Alexander Hamilton, Alice Rivlin, American International Group, Anne Fudge, Asia, Bailouts, Barack Obama, Berkshire Hathaway Inc, Bill Clinton, Bill Dudley, Brookings Institution, Business Intelligence Group, California, Citigroup, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Commonwealth Edison, Congressional Budget Office, Council On Foreign Relations, David Lipton, Desmond Lachman, Diana Farrell, Douglas Elmendorf, Eric Mindich, Evercore Partners, Federal Reserve, Financial Crisis, Galleon Group, Gary Gensler, Gene Sperling, George W Bush, Goldman Sachs, Great Depression, Gregory Craig, Hamilton Project, Harold Ford, Health Care, Henry Paulson, Hillary Clinton, Illinois, International Monetary Fund, Jacob Lew, James Rubin, Jason Furman, Jesse Unruh, John Kenneth Galbraith, Joseph Biden, Karen Kornbluh, Lael Brainard, Larry Summers, Lehman Brothers, Mark Gallogly, Mark Patterson, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Matt Taibbi, Medicare, Mexico, Michael Frohman, Michael Greenstone, Military, Neel Kashkari, New York Stock Exchange, North American Free Trade Agreement, O'melveny And Myers, Ohio, Peco Energy CO, Pennsylvania, Penny Pritzker, Peter Orszag, Quadrangle Group, Rahm Emanuel, Raj Rajaratnam, Robert Hormats, Robert Reischauer, Robert Rubin, Roger Altman, Salomon Smith Barney, Securities And Exchange Commission, Social Security, Stanford Group, Stephen Friedman, Steve Rattner, Thomas Donilon, Timothy Geithner, US Congress, US Department Of State, US Department Of The Treasury, Unicom Corp, United States, University Of Minnesota, Vietnam War, Warren Buffett, White House
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| 1/21/2010 |
Exclusive: Kucinich shreds Democrats for betraying the promise of change "And the same entrenched interests that George Bush could not shake, this current White House is having great difficulty in shaking. One could suggest they might be more entrenched than ever." (The Raw Story) | |||
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| 9/23/2009 |
Even the Part-Time Jobs are Disappearing -- The Economy is a Lie, Too Americans cannot get any truth out of their government about anything, the economy included. Americans are being driven into the ground economically, with one million school children now homeless, while Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke announces that the recession is over. The spin that masquerades as news is becoming more delusional. Consumer spending is 70% of the US economy. It is the driving force, and it has been shut down. Except for the super rich, there has been no growth in consumer incomes in the 21st century. Statistician John Williams of shadowstats.com reports that real household income has never recovered its pre-2001 peak. The unemployment rate, as reported, is a fiction and has been since the Clinton administration. The unemployment rate does not include jobless Americans who have been unemployed for more than a year and have given up on finding work. The reported 10% unemployment rate is understated by the millions of Americans who are suffering long-term unemployment and are no longer counted as unemployed. As each month passes, unemployed Americans drop off the unemployment role due to nothing except the passing of time. The inflation rate, especially “core inflation,” is another fiction. “Core inflation” does not include food and energy, two of Americans’ biggest budget items. The Consumer Price Index (CPI) assumes, ever since the Boskin Commission during the Clinton administration, that if prices of items go up consumers substitute cheaper items. This is certainly the case, but this way of measuring inflation means that the CPI is no longer comparable to past years, because the basket of goods in the index is variable. The Boskin Commission’s CPI, by lowering the measured rate of inflation, raises the real GDP growth rate. The result of the statistical manipulation is an understated inflation rate, thus eroding the real value of Social Security income, and an overstated growth rate. Statistical manipulation cloaks a declining standard of living. (Counter Punch) | |||
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keywords: Alan Greenspan, Alternative Media, Bailouts, Ben Bernanke, Bill Clinton, Brazil, Canada, Consumer Price Index, Dollar, Euro, Federal Reserve, Financial Crisis, George W Bush, Goldman Sachs, Great Depression, Henry Paulson, Japan, John Williams, Larry Summers, Paul Craig Roberts, Ronald Reagan, Russia, Securities And Exchange Commission, Social Security, Switzerland, US Department Of The Treasury, United Kingdom, United States, Wall Street
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| 8/3/2009 |
Geithner, Summers hedge on tax hikes Conflict with Obama's vow Wavering on an emphatic promise he made in the spring, top White House economic adviser Lawrence H. Summers would not rule out middle-class tax increases Sunday as a way for the Obama administration to pay for a sweeping health care plan (Washington Times) | |||
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keywords: Barack Obama, Charles Rangel, Financial Crisis, George Stephanopoulos, Health Care, Jim Demint, Larry Summers, National Economic Council, Timothy Geithner, US Congress, United States
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| 7/9/2009 |
The Great American Bubble Machine From tech stocks to high gas prices, Goldman Sachs has engineered every major market manipulation since the Great Depression — and they're about to do it again But then, any attempt to construct a narrative around all the former Goldmanites in influential positions quickly becomes an absurd and pointless exercise, like trying to make a list of everything. What you need to know is the big picture: If America is circling the drain, Goldman Sachs has found a way to be that drain — an extremely unfortunate loophole in the system of Western democratic capitalism, which never foresaw that in a society governed passively by free markets and free elections, organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy. (Rolling Stone) | |||
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| 6/18/2009 |
Geithner Defends Plan to Give Fed Stepped-Up Powers Dodd, a Connecticut Democrat, quoted one critic's view that giving the central bank more power was like awarding a son a "bigger, faster car right after he crashed the family station wagon." (Bloomberg) | |||
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| 6/16/2009 |
Federal Reserve to gain power under plan Targets dangers to economy The Federal Reserve, already arguably the most powerful agency in the U.S. government, will get sweeping new authority to regulate any company whose failure could endanger the U.S. economy and markets under the Obama administration's regulatory overhaul plan (Washington Times) | |||
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| 6/16/2009 |
Obama to propose strict new regulation of financial industry President Obama is expected to unveil a plan that would give the government new powers to seize key companies whose failure jeopardizes the financial system. The plan would give the government new powers to seize key companies whose failure jeopardizes the financial system, as well as creation of a watchdog agency to look out for consumers' interests (Los Angeles Times) | |||
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| 6/15/2009 |
Fed to Get Bigger Mandate to Supervise Financial System All large institutions whose failure could threaten the stability of the financial system will be subjected to regulation by the Fed, administration officials said (CNBC) | |||
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| 6/9/2009 |
White House had long planned GM and Chrysler bankruptcies Documents filed with the US Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York make it clear that Obama’s Auto Task Force—headed by millionaire private equity manager Steven Rattner—had decided as early as Inauguration Day that a court-ordered restructuring of GM and Chrysler was needed (World Socialist Web Site) | |||
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| 5/26/2009 |
Obama Set to Create A Cybersecurity Czar With Broad Mandate Shielding Public, Private Networks Is Goal (Washington Post) | |||
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| 5/26/2009 |
Officials gave Bilderberg briefings A handful of high-ranking Obama administration officials this month delivered private briefings at the annual invitation-only conference held by an elite international organization known as the Bilderberg group (Politico) | |||
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| 5/18/2009 |
Bilderberg 2009 Attendee List (Prison Planet) | |||
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| 5/16/2009 |
Greek nationalists protest Bilderberg Club meeting The demonstrators, from Greece's right-wing Popular Orthodox Rally party, shouted slogans and held a large banner saying "Bilderberg Unwelcome" outside the hotel (Associated Press) | |||
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| 2/1/2009 |
Linda L. Robertson of The Johns Hopkins University “spent eight years in senior positions at the Treasury Department, working for three secretaries: Lloyd Bentsen, Robert Rubin and Lawrence Summers,” (Johns Hopkins University) | |||
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| 1/26/2009 |
After less than a week in office, Barack Obama's approval rating plunges 15 points But there were signs yesterday that reality has set in following the wave of optimism surrounding his inauguration last Tuesday. Mr Obama is facing an ugly battle with Republicans over his plans to bail out the economy with £515billion of taxpayers' cash. Opposition leaders claim the rescue package relies too much on government spending and not enough on tax relief for families and small businesses. (UK Daily Mail) | |||
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| 1/9/2009 |
Exxon CEO Advocates Emissions Tax The chief executive of Exxon Mobil Corp. for the first time called on Congress to enact a tax on greenhouse-gas emissions in order to fight global warming. In a speech in Washington, Rex Tillerson said that a tax was a "more direct, a more transparent and a more effective approach" to curtailing greenhouse gases than other plans popular in Congress and with the incoming Obama administration. "My greatest concern is that policy makers will attempt to mandate or ordain solutions that are doomed to fail," Mr. Tillerson said. The policy he is advocating is often called a carbon tax because it would be imposed on emissions of carbon dioxide, the most common man-made greenhouse gas. By backing it, Mr. Tillerson has become an unlikely member of a club that includes former Vice President Al Gore, consumer advocate Ralph Nader and President-elect Barack Obama's designated head of the National Economic Council, Larry Summers. (Wall Street Journal) | |||
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| 1/1/2009 |
Obama's Advisors The transition to the new administration of Barack Obama has been accompanied by much optimism and hope for "change." The affiliations of some of his close associates, however, must be cause for concern. (Daniel Estulin: The True Story of The Bilderberg Group) | |||
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| 11/24/2008 |
Noam Chomsky on Obama and his Cabinet Selections (Democracy Now) | |||
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| 11/23/2008 |
Rubinomics Recalculated Even the headhunters for Mr. Obama have Rubin ties: Michael Froman, Mr. Rubin’s chief of staff in the Treasury Department who followed him to Citigroup, and James S. Rubin, Mr. Rubin’s son (New York Times) | |||
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| 10/13/2008 |
House GOP objects to spending in $150 billion stimulus package Boehner wrote, "nothing currently being discussed by the majority as 'stimulus' will stabilize the economy long-term." (CNN) | |||
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| 10/10/2001 |
The Globalizer Who Came In From the Cold The World Bank's former Chief Economist's accusations are eye-popping including how the IMF and US Treasury fixed the Russian elections "It has condemned people to death," the former apparatchik told me. This was like a scene out of Le Carre. The brilliant old agent comes in from the cold, crosses to our side, and in hours of debriefing, empties his memory of horrors committed in the name of a political ideology he now realizes has gone rotten. And here before me was a far bigger catch than some used Cold War spy. Joseph Stiglitz was Chief Economist of the World Bank. To a great extent, the new world economic order was his theory come to life. I "debriefed" Stigltiz over several days, at Cambridge University, in a London hotel and finally in Washington in April 2001 during the big confab of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. But instead of chairing the meetings of ministers and central bankers, Stiglitz was kept exiled safely behind the blue police cordons, the same as the nuns carrying a large wooden cross, the Bolivian union leaders, the parents of AIDS victims and the other 'anti-globalization' protesters. The ultimate insider was now on the outside. (Greg Palast) | |||
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| 10/1/2001 |
The Globalizer Who Came In From the Cold Joe Stiglitz: Today's Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics The World Bank's former Chief Economist's accusations are eye-popping including how the IMF and US Treasury fixed the Russian elections (Greg Palast) | |||
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