Kevin Warsh's portfolio and Fed's 'plutocracy' problem
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Here’s a meaty article by the conservative professor James Kurth, discussing the foreign policy implications of our plutocratic governing order. Excerpts: It is obvious that the 1990s was a decisive ...
According to a popular view on the political left, businessmen want to control the government and our lives in service of their profits. So when a businessman like Donald Trump becomes president, it ...
Despite much lofty rhetoric portraying the United States as a democracy (in which the people rule), this nation, in fact, has often resembled a plutocracy (in which the wealthy rule). The confusion ...
Committee chosen to draft a declaration of independence for the 13 North American British colonies, from left, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Philip Livingston and Roger Sherman.
“Landholders ought to have a share in the government, to support these invaluable interests, and to balance and check the other. They ought to be so constituted as to protect the minority of the ...
That quaking and creaking isn’t from the Chilean earthquake, it’s a destructive seismic shift to right-wing extremism and plutocracy in real time with its epicenter in Texas. The rumble began with ...
In this first part of a two-part program, we travel back and forth in time to explore the battle between democracy and plutocracy that goes back to the very founding of the United States. The ...
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