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Michael Hudson on How Banks Really Make Money

Posted in Alternate Economic Philosophies, Banking, Lauded Sources, tagged , on December 23, 2009 | 1 Comment »

In the modern Sarah Palin / Milton Friedman US culture, Michael Hudson is a Communist because he opposes the consolidation of power and the mistreatment of the non elite. These ideas can get you kicked out of the nicer cocktail parties in this country. Michael Hudson In an era when most economists are content to [...]

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Adam Smith Favored Labor Unions

Posted in Capitalism, Globalization, Lauded Sources on December 12, 2009 | 5 Comments »

Adam Smith understood the unequal treatment between when companies combine to keep wages low vs. when labor combines to keep wages high. Cherry Picking Adam Smith’s Work In our post below, we noted that Adam Smith is almost never read by people that quote him, and that what quotes do come from him are cherry [...]

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Financial Advisors – Pez Dispensers but for Excrement

Posted in Deliberately False Financial Information, Investment Advice, Lauded Sources, tagged on November 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Be careful about opening the mouth of a financial advisor, stock broker and so on. Unlike a Pez, that is not candy that is about to come out of their mouths. When I look back, it is in utter amazement at the number of false statements I have been subjected to by financial advisors and [...]

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Two Great Books by Dollars and Sense

Posted in Lauded Sources, tagged on July 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

A Real Education from Dollars and Sense Its hard to give a higher recommendation than the one we give to books by Dollars and Sense. Dollars and Sense is progressive website and publisher on progressive economics and finance. We imaged a university that taught from D&S’s textbooks rather than from the corporate controlled textbooks that [...]

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