It’s as though actual human beings don’t really matter to these people. Soulless economics is a scourge.
The Lever @LeverNews
6 Oct 2022
Obama was criticized for stocking his White House with elites who embraced - rather than challenged - right-wing economic ideology. Today, Obama's former economic aide @JasonFurman appeared at the far-right Cato Institute to slam anti-price gouging laws.

Oct 7, 2022 · 10:41 AM UTC

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Price-gouging is theft.
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Best free market ever was probably 1929, or the Bush financial collapse, same thing.
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If Democrats decide at the very top to support Republicans, what should us regular people do about it? If our 2-party system has morphed into two right wing parties, one slightly more right than the other, our votes really do become an exercise in futility. We need a miracle!
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They don't. Remember the documentary The Corporation? Psychopaths.
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But keep waiting on those acorns
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latimes.com/business/story/2…

Column: How did America get addicted to a policy that fails everyone but the rich?

The neoliberalism of Ronald Reagan has served only the rich, yet it still governs American economic policy. UC Berkeley's Brad DeLong examines why in his new book.

latimes.com
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The two parties are a monolith on war and economics. That’s why they run and create the fight over social issues.
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