On 2013-06-19, at 11:05 AM, Jim Devine wrote: > from this link: > Leigh Phillips writes:it [the JP Morgan manifesto] is >> the first > public document I’ve come across where the authors are frank that the > problem is not just a question of fiscal rectitude and boosting > competitiveness, but that there is also an excess of democracy in some > European countries that needs to be trimmed.
> […] > > Yes, you read that right… > […] Excellent post, Jim. I'd add a) "independent" central banks free from mass political pressure as well as b) binding free trade agreements with provisions designed to supersede the legislated gains won over generations by workers and farmers to protect their living standards as two other devices which the corporations and their states have used to distance themselves from democratic control. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
