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Archive of posts published in the tag: Asia Times

Regulatory Rent Seeking

from David Goldman at The Asian TImes, Deplorably, Trump is going to win That’s not why Trump crushed the Republican primaries. He won because Americans are tired of an economic elite that ignores them. Americans know the game is rigged against

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Deplorable and Proud

from David Goldman at The Asian TImes, Deplorably, Trump is going to win The presidential election was over the moment the word “deplorable” made its run out of Hillary Clinton’s unguarded mouth. As the whole world now knows, Clinton told a Lesbian-Gay-Bisexual-Transgender fundraiser

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Thousands of Small Holes

Yet while the laws of finance can sometimes be violated with delayed penalty, they cannot be permanently overturned. The fact remains that central banks cannot repeatedly use easy money to fund serial debt bubbles without accumulating fatal consequences. While undetected

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Democratic Fundamentalism

Posted in the Asia Times online Henry CK Liu writes The Crisis of Wealth Destruction.  An excerpt: Market fundamentalism places unwarranted faith in the mythical self-correcting power of unregulated markets driven solely by the no-holds-barred, winner-takes-all self-interest of unruly market

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