http://davidstockmanscontracorner.com/bruce-berkowitzs-bogus-bombast/
http://www.spiegel.de/international/business/capitalism-in-crisis-amid-slow-growth-and-growing-inequality-a-998598.html
h/t Tokyo Tom for the previous two
related: the big splash from Matt Taibbi last week:
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-9-billion-witness-20141106
That’s even without the core issue:
Just read the Rolling Stone piece - horrific. Finding it difficult not to get all Gramscian watching our UK government and print/screen media so effectively demonise the poorest and most vulnerable in society, while institutions that knowingly sold poison that gave the global economic system a heart attack ooze their way round justice - and get a share hike when they do. Urgh.
Did anyone catch this from the Economist? In the US, the top 0.1% are about to become richer than the bottom 90% for the first time since 1929.
Full steam ahead towards the next cliff! That's how "capitalism" has been "working" for long. When will the collateral damage be tolerated no longer by The People? The recent U.S. midterm elections give no hope: Capitalist Stockholm syndrome!
(SPIEGEL.de loc. link)
And yet the poor stupid 'merrican folks vote for the puppets of Koch Bros. & Co. ...
A Synopsis: Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update:
From my cynical perspective of serious biogeophysical ethics this is a sign of hope: "Capitalism" will undo itself before totally wrecking the planet's life support system. Looks like it's happening right now (i.e. +/- 10y).