How the Financial Plutocracy Tugs the Leash on the Two-Party Duopoly

[robert l. bentham]

The great mystery story in American politics these days is why, over the course of two presidential administrations (one from each party), there's been no serious federal criminal investigation of Wall Street during a period of what appears to be epic corruption. People on the outside have speculated and come up with dozens of possible reasons, some plausible, some tending toward the conspiratorial - but there have been very few who've come at the issue from the inside. We get one of those rare inside accounts in The Payoff: Why Wall Street Always Wins.... [T]hose interested in understanding the mindset of the people who should be leading the anti-corruption charge ought to read this book. It's the weird lack of concern that shines through ... On the outside we can only deduce the mindset from actions and non-actions, but Connaughton's actually seen it, and with the book you get to see it too. It's scary and definitely worth a read.

http://truth-out.org/news/item/1549...cracy-tugs-the-leash-on-the-two-party-duopoly

 

[FluffyMcDeath]

The Reptilians and the Demagogues - the sheep dogs of Pluto.

 

[robert l. bentham]

The Reptilians and the Demagogues - the sheep dogs of Pluto.

the saddest part of the whole mess imho is that if the puported end goal is "confidence in the market place", why wouldn't you punish the criminals first chance you had? the only confidence they've created in my mind is that it's business as usual. it doesn't say much that after all these years, and endless cycles of market abuse they haven't figured out that slow and steady is the way to go... you can only tow a vehicle so far with convulsive starts and stops before you rip the bumper off...