Month December 2008

What comes after theftocracy capitalism?

John Robb Is financial capitalism as internally flawed as socialism is at its extreme? There’s a good case for that. If it is, will our fate be similar to the Soviets?? I suspect they suffered from a similar problem as…

The end of capitalism

Scott Adams of Dilbert fame on the coming changes Capitalism was conceived before the Internet, and before the gears of commerce became computerized. The system could absorb a lot of con artists because they didn’t have the ability to steal…

The Liberal Defence of Murder

Derek Wall on Richard Seymour’s (Lenin’s Tomb) new book, The Liberal Defence of Murder It looks really interesting, there is a moral panic being constructed by some because it has been reviewed sympathetically below in the New Statesman. Even if…

A look at Madoff trading records

A Madoff client who may have lost upwards of $1.8 million has leaked copies of the trading records to Dealbook. The trades look authentic, but at this point no one know if they actually happened or not. Madoff has admitted…