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by Michael Hudson
Writer, Dandelion Salad
September 29, 2022
Ralph Nader Radio Hour on Sep 17, 2022
Ralph does a deep dive into the real purpose of the Federal Reserve and other aspects of the American economy with progressive economist, Michael Hudson.
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with Michael Parenti
Writer, Dandelion Salad
May 23, 2022
“You can’t have rich corporate conglomerates unless you have wage and salary workers who will work a whole lifetime and at the end of that lifetime not know any kind of economic security of any sort, own nothing but maybe a mortgage on the house or whatever, if that. So the secret to getting rich, ladies and gentlemen, is not to work hard but to get others to work hard for you.” — Michael Parenti
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by Michael Hudson
Writer, Dandelion Salad
September 1, 2021
Prof Michael Hudson on Aug 19, 2021
A 3-part lecture series for the Global University for Sustainability, Hong Kong.
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Watch the video below
“There is a misconception that capitalism and free markets are the same things. This is not the case. Capitalism relies heavily on state protection and state intervention. Capitalism and the state are twin pillars of control that have developed in tandem, supporting and reinforcing one another both deriving their power from private property (not to be confused with personal property).”
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with Caleb Maupin
Writer, Dandelion Salad
Caleb Maupin (website)
Caleb Maupin (Facebook Page)
December 3, 2018
“It’s a word that gets thrown around a lot and I think it’s a word that a lot of people don’t know what it means. Neoliberalism is an economic term.” — Caleb Maupin
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“This country has socialism for the rich, and rugged individualism for the poor.”
— Martin Luther King, Jr. (1968)
by Ralph Nader
The Nader Page
Nov. 30, 2011
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“Here, look at this handsome L.L. Bean catalog and tell me what you want for Christmas,” said a relative over Thanksgiving weekend. I started leafing through the 88 page cornucopia with hundreds of clothing and household products, garnished by free gift cards and guaranteed free shipping. I wasn’t perusing it for any suggested gifts; instead, I was going through every offering to see whether they were made in the U.S.A. or in other countries.
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by Noam Chomsky
http://www.chomsky.info
Delivered at Harvard University, April 13, 1996
Transcription courtesy of William Greene
For those who are interested in the real world, a look at the actual history suggests some adjustment — a modification of free market theory, to what we might call “really existing free market theory.” That is, the one that’s actually applied, not talked about.
And the principle of really existing free market theory is: free markets are fine for you, but not for me. That’s, again, near a universal. So you — whoever you may be — you have to learn responsibility, and be subjected to market discipline, it’s good for your character, it’s tough love, and so on, and so forth. But me, I need the nanny State, to protect me from market discipline, so that I’ll be able to rant and rave about the marvels of the free market, while I’m getting properly subsidized and defended by everyone else, through the nanny State. And also, this has to be risk-free. So I’m perfectly willing to make profits, but I don’t want to take risks. If anything goes wrong, you bail me out.
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