Category Archives: Economics for Dummies

Bad pennies have a habit of coming back…

Posted on February 22, 2009 by Sabina Becker

…in Spain:Yes, that’s an actual fascist salute. This was taken at an anti-immigrant rally. Apparently Bolivian migrant workers in Spain are facing unprecedented amounts of racist abuse as the economy falters and the nativists blame the migrants. Nothing has changed … Continue reading →

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Let me tell you how it will be…

Posted on February 19, 2009 by Sabina Becker

First, a little mood music from the Fab Four:Now, on with the show. Via the comments section at BoRev’s piece on the Stanford Bank caper, I happened across this little item in Forbes, and in it, this: A group of … Continue reading →

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Pride goes before…uh, what was the saying again?

Posted on February 9, 2009 by Sabina Becker

Whatever it is, it seems to have hit some Middle Eastern plutocrats’ paradise or other… Local police have found at least 3,000 automobiles — sedans, SUVs, regulars — abandoned outside Dubai International Airport in the last four months. Police say … Continue reading →

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Privatized Cities

Posted on February 8, 2009 by Sabina Becker

An Al-Jazeera English report by Canada’s own Avi Lewis (spouse of Naomi Klein, who wrote The Shock Doctrine, in which the Sandy Springs story also figures).Want to see Completely Fucking Clueless in action? Get a load of that Republican dude. … Continue reading →

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Quotable: Frantz Fanon on neoliberalism

Posted on December 22, 2008 by Sabina Becker

“But when decolonization occurs in regions where the liberation struggle has not yet made its impact sufficiently felt, here are the same smart alecks, the sly, shrewd intellectuals whose behavior and ways of thinking, picked up from their rubbing shoulders … Continue reading →

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Economics for Dummies: Trickle-Down Economics in a Nutshell

Posted on December 5, 2008 by Sabina Becker

“Milton Friedman should come and explain this to me! I’ve been waiting here for years and nothing’s trickling down!”

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