(Tea Party 1 : Tea Party 2) To the offended: You may be adamantly against the recent stimulus packages and bailouts of Big Business (as proffered by GWB and BHO), but if you are a laissez-faire capitalist or corporate libertarian, you are a porter for economic tyranny (as in T-Party) whether you admit it or […]
Econ 010 ~ Then & Now Read More »
(All indented quotes are found in Devil Take the Hindmost: A History of Financial Speculation by Edward Chancellor, © 1999, A Plume Book. You should read this book if you are an investor and/or speculator, or if you are financially related to one.) Not only was the “vast fund of stupidity”* a growth industry in
(All indented quotes are found in Devil Take the Hindmost: A History of Financial Speculation by Edward Chancellor, © 1999, A Plume Book, pp. 59, 67, 67, 69, 76, 77, 92.) In memory of the birth of the South Sea Company (in 1711 – 300 years ago), Deja Vu Times recycles a few comments/quotes from
“Vast Fund of Stupidity [& Recycling Cupidity]”?! Read More »
(P-Con = sketch-stories exploring the déjà vu of Power, Publicity, PR, & Propoganda Concerns.) This sketch-story was inspired while watching “Donald Trump’s Golf War” documentary, aired on “The Passionate Eye” – CBC News Network, Sunday, March 20, 2011; available for ONLY a limited time at http://www.cbc.ca/documentaries/passionateeyeshowcase/2011/golfwar/
P-Con 001 ~ Enough & To Spare (Or Not) ! Read More »
~ http://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2009/08/ten-dictates-practicalities-of-laissez.htmlhttp://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2010/06/yes-we-get-it.html
Econ 009 ~ Church of the Laissez-faire Read More »
~ (Laissez-faire style) ~ Adam Smith: The interest of the dealers, however, in any particular branch of trade or manufactures, is always in some respects different from, and even opposite to, that of the public. To widen the market and to narrow the competition, is always the interest of the dealers. To widen the market
ECON 008 ~ “Give & Take” Read More »
~ ————–/Adam Smith: When masters combine together in order to reduce the wages of their workmen, they commonly enter into a private bond or agreement not to give more than a certain wage under a certain penalty. Were the workmen to enter into a contrary combination of the same kind, not to accept of a
ECON 007 ~ “Mine” Shafts Read More »